Attributions of blame and coping in the "real world": Severe accident victims react to their lot.

Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.

1966 • 21,432 citations

Observer's reaction to the "innocent victim": Compassion or rejection?

1966 • 874 citations

Assignment of responsibility for an accident.

1966 • 777 citations

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

1970 • 770 citations

Responses to Uncontrollable Outcomes: An Integration of Reactance Theory and the Learned Helplessness Model

1975 • 744 citations

Who Believes in a Just World

1980 • 644 citations

Evaluation of performance as a function of performer's reward and attractiveness.

1965 • 538 citations

STRESS, DEFENSES AND COPING BEHAVIOR: OBSERVATIONS IN PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH MALIGNANT DISEASE

1964 • 228 citations

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

1973 • 223 citations

Reactions to suffering of others under conditions of indirect responsibility.

1967 • 209 citations

Observers evaluation of a victim: Justice, guilt, and veridical perception.

1971 • 156 citations

From Death Camp to Existentialism

1960 • 136 citations

OBSERVER'S REACTION TO THE "INNOCENT VICTIM":

1966 • 136 citations

Guilt reactions in patients with cancer

1953 • 135 citations

Causal chains: Attribution of responsibility as a function of immediate and prior causes.

1975 • 106 citations

Choosing to suffer as a consequence of expecting to suffer: Why do people do it?

1975 • 66 citations

Coping with Untimely Death^†

1973 • 46 citations

The Measurement of Religious Attitudes in a University Population

1963 • 45 citations

Negative expectancy and the choice of an aversive task.

1970 • 13 citations

Chance outcomes and the just world: A comparison of observers and recipients.

1975 • 13 citations