TY - JOUR
AU - Schmidt, Charles F.
AB - To study the structure of the layman's perception of social causality, 76 statements which offered an explanation for the occurrence of the riots of the summer of 1967 were extracted from editorials and special articles printed in various newspapers and magazines. Judgments of the degree of dissimilarity of these explanations were obtained from 40 male undergraduate judges. These dissimilarity judgments served as the basis for a nonmetric multidimensional scaling of the explanations. A 2-dimensional solution adequately accounted for the relations between the causal statements. An additional group of 15 judges provided ratings of the explanations on properties that were expected to underlie the 2-dimensional configurations. Using multiple-regression procedures, the following properties provided an interpretation of the psychological nature of the dimensions represented in the space: (a) internally-externally caused, (b) institutional-environmental caused, and (c) legitimate-illegitimate. The internal-external and institutional-environmental dimensions were nearly orthogonal to each other. The evaluative dimension represented by the implied legitimacy dimension was highly correlated with the internal-external dimension. Results are discussed in light of theories of the perception of social causality.
TI - Multidimensional scaling analysis of the printed media's explanations of the riots of the summer of 1967
JF - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
DO - 10.1037/h0033364
DA - 1972-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/multidimensional-scaling-analysis-of-the-printed-media-s-explanations-BEf0N0w29F
SP - 59
EP - 67
VL - 24
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -