Attributions to success and failure after cooperative or competitive interaction

It has been found that actors make different attributions about their own & their partners' outcomes after success or failure, attributing their success to dispositional factors & their failure to situational factors, but showing the reverse pattern for others. It is hypothesized that self-serving attributions will be more often found when results are not independent but interdependent. A task was completed by 212 M undergraduates, each with a confederate partner, under conditions of cooperation, competition, or independence, & with task success or failure. There were no significant effects due to which confederate was involved. Attributions to the self & to the partner were found to be equally self-serving in all conditions, failing to support the hypotheses advanced. 2 Tables. W. H. Stoddard.