Publications prior to 1995

Craig A. Anderson

Publications prior to 1995

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Click here to access various scales and tasks used in my attributional style or my aggression research.
Click here to download a letter (in pdf format) to parents with recommendations for some good video game sources and some guidelines concerning violent video games.

 

1979

Carlsmith, J.M., & Anderson, C.A. (1979). Ambient temperature and the occurrence of collective violence: A new analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 37, 337-344.

1980

Anderson, C.A., & Jennings, D.L. (1980). When experiences of failure promote expectations of success: The impact of attributing failure to ineffective strategies. Journal of Personality, 48, 393-407.

Anderson, C.A., Lepper, M.R., & Ross, L. (1980). The perseverance of social theories: The role of explanation in the persistence of discredited information. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39, 1037-1049.

1982

Anderson, C.A. (1982). Inoculation and counter-explanation:  Debiasing techniques in the perseverance of social theories. Social Cognition, 1, 126-139.

Ross, L., & Anderson, C.A. (1982). Shortcomings in the attribution process: On the origins and maintenance of erroneous social assessments. In D. Kahneman, P. Slovic, & A. Tversky (Eds.), Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (pp. 129-152). New York: Oxford University Press.

Horowitz, L.M., French, R., & Anderson, C.A. (1982). The prototype of a lonely person. In L.A. Peplau & D. Perlman (Eds.), Loneliness: A Sourcebook of Current Theory, Research, and Therapy (pp. 183-205). New York: Wiley-Interscience.

1983

Anderson, C.A. (1983). Abstract and concrete data in the perseverance of social theories: When weak data lead to unshakeable beliefs. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 19, 93-108.

Anderson, C.A. (1983). The causal structure of situations: The generation of plausible causal attributions as a function of type of event situation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 19, 185-203.

Anderson, C.A., Horowitz, L.M., & French, R. (1983). Attributional style of lonely and depressed people. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 45, 127-136.

Anderson, C.A. (1983). Motivational and performance deficits in interpersonal settings: The effect of attributional style. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 45, 1136-1147.

Anderson, C.A. (1983). Imagination and expectation: The effect of imagining behavioral scripts on personal intentions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 45, 293-305.

1984

Anderson, C.A. & Anderson, D.C. (1984). Ambient temperature and violent crime: Tests of the linear and curvilinear hypotheses. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 91-97.

Anderson, C.A., Horowitz, L.M., & French, R. (1984). Correction to Anderson, Horowitz, and French. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 1172.

1985

Anderson, C.A., & Arnoult, L.H. (1985). Attributional style and everyday problems in living: Depression, loneliness, and shyness. Social Cognition, 3, 16-35.

Anderson, C.A., New, B.L., & Speer, J.R. (1985). Argument availability as a mediator of social theory perseverance. Social Cognition, 3, 235-249.

Anderson, C.A. (1985). Actor and observer attributions for different types of situations: Causal structure effects, individual differences, and the dimensionality of causes. Social Cognition, 3, 323-340.

Lane, D.M., Anderson, C.A., & Kellam, K.L. (1985). Judging the relatedness of variables: The psychophysics of covariation detection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 11, 640-649.

Anderson, C.A., & Arnoult, L.H. (1985). Attributional models of depression, loneliness, and shyness. In J. Harvey & G. Weary (Eds.), Attribution: Basic Issues and Applications (pp. 235-279). New York: Academic Press.

1986

Anderson, C.A., & Sechler, E.S. (1986). Effects of explanation and counterexplanation on the development and use of social theories. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 24-34.

Bushman, B.J., & Anderson, C.A. (2001). Is it time to pull the plug on the hostile versus instrumental aggression dichotomy? Psychological Review, 108, 273-279.

Anderson, C.A., Lane, D.M., & Kellam, K.L. (1986). Functional relations are not models: A note on covariation detection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 12, 110-111.

Anderson, C.A., & Slusher, M.P. (1986). Relocating motivational effects: An examination of the cognition-motivation debate on attributions for success and failure. Social Cognition, 4, 270-292.

Anderson, C.A., & Ford, C.M. (1986). Affect of the game player: Short-term consequences of playing aggressive video games. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 12, 390-402.

1987

Slusher, M.P., & Anderson, C.A. (1987). When reality monitoring fails: The role of imagination in stereotype maintenance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 653-662.

Anderson, C.A. (1987). Temperature and aggression: Effects on quarterly, yearly, and city rates of violent and nonviolent crime. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 1161-1173.

Sherman, R.T., & Anderson, C.A. (1987). Decreasing premature termination from psychotherapy. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 5, 298-312.

Anderson, C.A., & Godfrey, S. (1987). Thoughts about actions: The effects of specificity and availability of imagined behavioral scripts on expectations about oneself and others. Social Cognition, 5, 238-258.

1988

Anderson, C.A., & Harvey, R.J. (1988). Discriminating between problems in living: An examination of measures of depression, loneliness, shyness, and social anxiety. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 6, 482-491.

Anderson, C.A., Jennings, D.L., & Arnoult, L.H. (1988). Validity and utility of the attributional style construct at a moderate level of specificity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55, 979-990.

Arnoult, L.H., & Anderson, C.A. (1988). Identifying and reducing causal reasoning biases in clinical practice. In D. Turk & P. Salovey (Eds.), Reasoning, Inference, and Judgment in Clinical Psychology: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment. (pp. 209-232). New York: Free Press.

1989

Anderson, C.A., & Arnoult, L.H. (1989). An examination of perceived control, humor, irrational beliefs, and positive stress as moderators of the relation between negative stress and health. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 10, 101-117.

Anderson, C.A. (1989). Temperature and aggression: Ubiquitous effects of heat on the occurrence of human violence. Psychological Bulletin, 106, 74-96.

Slusher, M.P., & Anderson, C.A. (1989). Belief perseverance and self-defeating behavior. In R. Curtis (Ed.) Self-defeating behaviors: Experimental research clinical impressions, and practical implications. (pp. 11-40). New York:                       Plenum.

Anderson, C.A. (1989). Causal reasoning and belief perseverance. In D.W. Schumann (Ed.), Proceedings of the Society for Consumer Psychology (pp. 115-120). Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee.

1991

Anderson, C.A., & Sedikides, C. (1991). Thinking about people: Contributions of a typological alternative to associationistic and dimensional models of person perception. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 203-217.

Anderson, C.A., & Deuser, W.E. (1991). Science and the reformulated learned helplessness model of depression. Psychological Inquiry, 2, 14-19.

Anderson, C.A., & Riger, A.L. (1991). A controllability attributional model of problems in living: Dimensional and situational interactions in the prediction of depression and loneliness. Social Cognition, 9, 149-181.

Anderson, C.A. (1991). How people think about causes: Examination of the typical phenomenal organization of attributions for success and failure. Social Cognition, 9, 295-329.

Anderson, C.A. (1991). Attributions as decisions: A two-stage information processing model. In S. Zelen (Ed.) New models, new extensions of attribution theory: The third attribution-personality conference, CSPP-LA, 1988. (pp. 12-54). New York: Springer

1992

Anderson, C.A., & Kellam, K.L. (1992). Belief perseverance, biased assimilation, and covariation detection: The effects of hypothetical social theories and new data. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 18, 555-565.

Sedikides, C., & Anderson, C.A. (1992). Causal explanations of defection: A knowledge structure approach. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 18, 420-429.

Anderson, C.A., & DeNeve, K.M. (1992). Temperature, aggression, and the negative affect escape model. Psychological Bulletin, 111, 347-351.

Anderson, C.A., & Weiner, B. (1992). Attribution and attributional processes in personality. In G. Caprara & G. Heck (Eds.) Modern personality psychology:  Critical reviews and new directions. (pp. 295-324). New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf.

1993

Anderson, C.A., & Deuser, W.E. (1993). The primacy of control in causal thinking and attributional style: An attributional functionalism perspective. In G. Weary, F. Gleicher, & K. Marsh (Eds.) Control motivation and social cognition. (pp. 94-121). New York: Springer-Verlag.

1994

Anderson, C.A., Miller, R.S., Riger, A.L., Dill, J.C., & Sedikides, C. (1994). Behavioral and characterological attributional styles as predictors of depression and loneliness:  Review, refinement, and test. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 549-558.

Sedikides, C., & Anderson, C.A. (1994). Causal perceptions of inter-trait relations: The glue that holds person types together. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 20, 294-302.

Groom, R.W., & Anderson, C.A. (1994). Effects of temperature and age distribution on violent crime rates in the United States. The MU McNair Journal, 2, 17-20.

Deuser, W.E., & Anderson, C.A. (1994). Updating our knowledge of reasoning in the twentieth century. Contemporary Psychology, 39, 764-765.

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