Male and female subjects (n = 72) experienced a high, moderate or low degree of initial success on an anagram task with half believing that only effort was required for success and the other half that only high ability was necessary. The findings suggest that manipulations of causal attributions used to test Weiner's attribution theory may be confounded with ego-involvement.
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