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<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . "Attributions as Behavior Explanations: Toward a New Theory"^^ . "Attribution theory has played a major role in social-psychological research. Unfortunately, the term attribution is ambiguous. According to one meaning, forming an attribution is making a dispositional (trait) inference from behavior; according to another meaning, forming an attribution is giving an explanation (especially of behavior). The focus of this paper is on the latter phenomenon of behavior explanations. In particular, I discuss a new theory of explanation that provides an alternative to classic attribution theory as it dominates the textbooks and handbooks—which is typically as a version of Kelley’s (1967) model of attribution as covariation detection. I begin with a brief critique of this theory and, out of this critique, develop a list of requirements that an improved theory has to meet. I then introduce the new theory, report empirical data in its support, and apply it to a number of psychological phenomena. I finally conclude with an assessment of how much progress we have made in understanding behavior explanations and what has yet to be learned."^^ . "2003" . . . . . . . "Bertram"^^ . "Malle"^^ . "Bertram Malle"^^ . . . . . . "Attributions as Behavior Explanations: Toward a New Theory (PDF)"^^ . . . . . . "Explanation_theory_03.pdf"^^ . . . "Attributions as Behavior Explanations: Toward a New Theory (Image (PNG))"^^ . . . . . . "preview.png"^^ . . . "Attributions as Behavior Explanations: Toward a New Theory (Indexer Terms)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #3314 \n\nAttributions as Behavior Explanations: Toward a New Theory\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Philosophy of Mind" . . . "Social Psychology" . .