Happy Accidents: Defensive Attribution or Rational Calculus?

Self-serving biases in the attribution of causality: Fact or fiction?

1975 • 2,467 citations

Defensive attribution: Effects of severity and relevance on the responsibility assigned for an accident.

1970 • 770 citations

The Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association

1936 • 564 citations

Victim or perpetrator?: Defensive attribution of responsibility and the need for order and justice.

1973 • 223 citations

An information-processing approach to attribution of responsibility

1977 • 96 citations

Attribution of responsibility for a happy accident.

1971 • 91 citations

Effects of actor's causal role, outcome severity, and knowledge of prior accidents upon attributions of responsibility

1976 • 34 citations