Students in an introductory psychology course (62 male and 62 female) perceived the weather as having greater influence on the emotions and actions of others than on their own, on emotions than on behaviors, and on positive emotions than on negative ones. In addition, response to a measure of superstitiousness about the weather correlated positively with perceived causal influence of the weather in both treatment conditions and for all four categories of attribution.
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