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Social Motivation, Justice, And The Moral Emotions: An Attributional Approach

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As Distinguished Professor of Psychology at UCLA, Bernard Weiner is quintessential experimentalist and theoretician. In great tradition of Wilhelm Wundt, William James, Edwin Boring and other empiricists, Weiner has advanced understanding and prediction of behavior in social environment

Weiner's latest book "Social Motivation, Justice, and the Moral Emotions: An Attributional Approach" summarizes nicely his theory to cognition, emotion, and behavior. Nearly 40 years of research supports Weiner's position that perceived rather than objective reasons for social outcomes influence interpersonal behavior.

But for my money, Weiner is far more important in historical analysis than his Attribution Theory. For here is an experimentalist and scholar dedicated to reliable prediction of behavior as criteria for assessing theory rather than popularity or anything else.

As with other publications by Weiner, the current book is well written, easily accessible to lay audiences and scholars alike.

Wundt, James, & Boring would be proud.