Attribution and Social Cognitive Neuroscience: A new approach for the “online-assessment” of causality ascriptions and their emotional consequences

• Published in: Journal of neuroscience methods Vol. 173; no. 1; pp. 13 - 19
• Main Authors: Terbeck, Sylvia, Chesterman, Paul, Fischmeister, Florian Ph.S., Leodolter, Ulrich, Bauer, Herbert
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 15.08.2008
• Subjects: Adult; Algorithms; Causality ascription; Cognitive Science - methods; Emotions - physiology; Feedback, Psychological; Female; Humans; Male; Manipulation of attribution; Moral emotions; Neurosciences - methods; Photic Stimulation; Psychological Theory; Psychomotor Performance; Random Allocation; Reaction Time - physiology; Social Cognitive Neuroscience; Social Perception; Statistics, Nonparametric; Task Performance and Analysis; Manipulation of attribution; Moral emotions; Causality ascription; Social Cognitive Neuroscience

Attribution theory plays a central role in understanding cognitive processes that have emotional consequences; however, there has been very limited attention to its neural basis. After reviewing classical studies in social psychology in which attribution has been experimentally manipulated we develo...