How and when do attributions affect relationship satisfaction? Judgments of partner suitability and implicit theories of relationships

• Main Author: WEE, Justus Rui Hao
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: attributions; locus of causality; interpersonal attributions; romantic relationships; Social Psychology; Social Psychology and Interaction
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll_all/42; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1042&context=etd_coll_all
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Drawing on the traditional internal-external dichotomy embraced by attribution research in other non-relational domains, research on attributions in romantic relationships has largely focused on distinguishing between the impact of making partner (internal) and external attributions. Given that past...