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Effect of Information about Role and Outcome on Alcoholics’ Attributional Processes

James A. Christiansen, John W. Reich, Frederick W. Obitz, Donald J. Baumann

SUMMARY. Alcoholics attributed an alcoholic’s behavior to external or situational factors and a nonalcoholic’ s behavior to internal or dispositional factors. Alcoholics identified more closely with alcoholics who could succeed and nonalcoholics who failed than with nonalcoholics who could succeed and alcoholics who failed.