TY - JOUR
AU - Helm, Bob
AB -  Summary American male undergraduate students served as Ss (N = 80) in an experiment which tested the effect of the actor-observer relationship (natural friendship versus stranger) on actors' and observers' emotional reactions and responsibility attributions following the actors' success or failure in a prisoner's dilemma game. Results indicated that observers felt better about a friend's success, and worse about a friend's failure, than they felt about a stranger's success or failure. Also, observers assigned more personal responsibility for a friend's success, and less personal responsibility for a friend's failure, than they assigned for a stranger's success or failure, the actor-observer relationship did not influence the actors' responsibility attributions or emotional responses to their outcomes. 
TI - The Actor-Observer Relationship: The Effect Of Actors' and Observers' Responsibility and Emotion Attributions
JF - The Journal of Social Psychology
DO - 10.1080/00224545.1982.9713430
DA - 1982-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/the-actor-observer-relationship-the-effect-of-actors-apos-and-6A7IpMBwbV
SP - 219
EP - 225
VL - 117
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -