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Motivated biases in autobiographical narratives of interpersonal transgressions

Stillwell, Arlene Marie
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1057092210

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1993, Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, Psychology.
Past research has found that perpetrators and victims of interpersonal transgressions focus their stories on very different aspects of the event. The present study addressed the issue of the motivated biases and inaccuracies in autobiographical narratives of minor interpersonal transgressions, due to the role or position one played in the original incident (perpetrator or victim). Twenty-one males and twenty-nine females participated in return for partial course fulfillment. Participants were randomly assigned to one of four experimental conditions or to a control condition. Participants in the four experimental conditions read a story detailing an interpersonal transgression while taking on the perspective of either the perpetrator or the victim. Experimental participants then later wrote the story as they remembered it happening to them. Participants in the control condition were asked to read the story and later wrote it as they remembered it happening. Results indicate that both perpetrators and victims distort their stories to an equal degree. Trends suggest that first-person stories contain more systematic errors while the third-person story errors were mainly random. It was concluded that the motivations to bias autobiographical narratives are contained in the interpersonal roles.
Roy Baumeister (Advisor)
64 p.
Motivated biases autobiographical narratives interpersonal transgressions

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  • Stillwell, A. M. (1993). Motivated biases in autobiographical narratives of interpersonal transgressions [Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1057092210

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Stillwell, Arlene. Motivated biases in autobiographical narratives of interpersonal transgressions. 1993. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1057092210.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Stillwell, Arlene. "Motivated biases in autobiographical narratives of interpersonal transgressions." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1057092210

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