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Within self-attribution research, it frequently proves difficult to experimentally induce the desired self-attribution. In most research paradigms, subjects are either instructed to self-attribute actions and occurrences, or they are given information to experience systematically a self-causation of single actions and occurrences. It is often doubted whether such experimental procedures fulfill the prerequisites for valid self-attributions (Krahé, 1984). Such doubts should be taken seriously for the following reasons:
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Subjects have their own history of self-causation outside the laboratory setting.
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The effectiveness of attribution manipulation depends on the subjects’ perceptions of the artificiality of the experimental task.
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Many experimental manipulations of subjective inferences fail to influence subjects.
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Haisch, J. (1989). Suggestion, Self-Attribution, and Behavior. In: Gheorghiu, V.A., Netter, P., Eysenck, H.J., Rosenthal, R. (eds) Suggestion and Suggestibility. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73875-3_29
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