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Culture, Attribution, & Automaticity
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Inferential Goal Constraint Information Sequential Operations
Dispositional Goal (D-Sequence)
“What is this person like”
Discounting Information
“Situation X promotes
the observed behavior”
Automatic: Make dispositional attribution
Controlled: Disposition is present
but less than automatically inferred
Augmenting Information
“Situation X inhibits
the observed behavior”
Automatic: Make dispositional attribution
Controlled: Disposition is present
but more than automatically inferred
Situational Goal (S-Sequence)
“What is this situation like”
Discounting Information
“Disposition Y promotes
the observed behavior”
Augmenting Information
“Disposition Y inhibits
the observed behavior”
Automatic: Make situational attribution
Controlled: Situational influence is present
but less than automatically inferred
Automatic: Make situational attribution
Controlled: Situational influence is present
but more than automatically inferred
Note: S-sequence (augmenting) has not been studied and thus the proposed automatic and controlled processes are hypothetical