Bernard Weiner

     
Institution
University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position
Distinguished Professor of Psychology

Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Psychology from University of Michigan, 1963

Research Interests
Attribution
Emotion
Helping/Pro-Social Behavior
Interpersonal Processes
Judgment/Decision Making
Motivation/Goal Setting
Psychology and Law
Social Cognition

Courses Taught
Attribution Theory
Human Motivation

 
Bernard Weiner
Department of Psychology
Franz Hall, UCLA
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90095-1563
U.S.A.

Home Page
Phone: (310) 825-2750
Fax: (310) 206-5895
Wikipedia entry

Bernard Weiner
Professor Bernard Weiner has research interests in attribution theory, emotions, responsibility judgments, impression management, help giving, achievement motivation, reactions to stigmatized, and theories of punishment.


Books:

  • Feshbach, S., & Weiner, B. (1996). Personality (4th ed.). Lexington, MA: D.C. Health.
  • Weiner, B. (2006). Social motivation, justice, and the moral emotions. Mahwah, N.J: Erlbaum. (translated into Chinese and Japanese)
  • Weiner, B. (1995). Judgments of responsibility: A foundation for a theory of social conduct. New York: Guilford.(translated into Chinese)
  • Weiner, B. (1992). Human motivation: Metaphors, theories, and research. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. (translated into German)
  • Weiner, B. (1986). An attributional theory of motivation and emotion. New York: Springer-Verlag. [Translated into Chinese]
  • Weiner, B. (1980). Human motivation. New York: Holt-Rinehart, & Winston. [Translated into German and Japanese]

Journal Articles:

  • Farwell, L., & Weiner, B. (2000). Bleeding hearts and the heartless: Popular perceptions of liberal and conservative ideologies. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 845-852.
  • Greitemeyer, T., & Weiner, B. (2003). Asymmetrical attributions for approach versus avoidance behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 1371-1382.
  • Hareli, S., & Weiner, B. (2002). Social emotions and personality inferences: A scaffold for a new direction in the study of achievement motivation. Educational Psychologist, 37, 183-193.
  • Hareli, S., & Weiner, B. (2000). Accounts for success as determinants of perceived arrogance and modesty. Motivation and Emotion, 24, 215-236.
  • Henry, P. J., Reyna, C., & Weiner, B. (2004). Hate welfare but help the poor: How the attributional content of stereotypes explains the paradox of reactions to the destitute in America. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 34, 34-58.
  • Rudolph, U., Roesch, S. C., Greitemeyer, T., & Weiner, B. (2004). A meta-analytic review of help giving and aggression from an attribution perspective: Contributions to a general theory of motivation. Cognition and Emotion, 18, 815-848.
  • Weiner, B. (2000). Intrapersonal and interpersonal theories of motivation from an attributional perspective. Educational Psychology Review, 12, 1-14.

Other Publications:

  • Weiner, B. (2005). Motivation from an attribution perspective and the social psychology of perceived competence. In Elliot, A. J., & Dweck, C. S. (Eds.), Handbook of Competence and Motivation (pp. 73-84). New York: Guilford.
  • Weiner, B. (2004). Attribution theory revisited: Transforming cultural plurality into theoretical unity. In McInerney, D. M., & Van Etten, S. (Eds.), Big theories revisited (pp. 13-29). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

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