Attributions for nonverbal expressions of liking and disliking: The extended self-serving bias
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as positive outcomes, which may in part be a function of what attributions are made for such expressions. The present experiment extends a common principle of attribution-making, the self-serving bias, to predict and explain participants' and nonparticipant observers' attributions for a confederate's nonverbal expressions of liking or disliking. Results indicated that (1) for participants but not for observers, expressions of disliking were more likely to elicit attributions than were expressions of liking; (2) participants were more likely to make attributions than were observers; (3) participants made more external, uncontrollable attributions for expressions of disliking than did observers; and, (4) participants made more internal, controllable attributions for expressions of liking than for expressions of disliking.
Although the desire to be liked and appreciated is among the most fundamental in the human experience (Maslow, 1970; Rotten Chance, & Phares, 1972), the expression of liking has the potential to generate negative as well
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