Bernard Weiner

Bernard Weiner (born September 28, 1935 ) is an American psychologist and professor at UCLA .

He received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1963 . In 1992 he received an honorary doctorate from Bielefeld University. In 2001 he was accepted as an external member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences .

He has made major contributions to the development of Attributional of motivation and emotion provided.

He distinguishes three dimensions that influence an attribution :

• internal vs. external
• stable vs. temporarily
• controllable vs. uncontrollable

Example: reasons for success / failure in a sports competition

	stable	stable	temporarily	temporarily
	controllable	uncontrollable	controllable	uncontrollable
internal	My experience	My talent	My effort	My exhaustion / illness
	"I have trained well / badly"	"I have a lot / little talent for this sport"	"I made a lot / little effort"	"I was fit / not fit"
external	Opponent's ability	Difficulty of the task	Effort of the opponent	luck
	"Opponent has trained well / badly"	"Opponent was weak / sport does not suit me"	"Opponent underestimated me / Opponent tried hard"	"I was lucky / unlucky"

Works

• Motivational Psychology , Beltz-Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3621277044
• Theories of Motivation , Klett-Cotta 1976, ISBN 978-3129285602
• Effect of success and failure on performance , Klett-Cotta 1988, ISBN 978-3129285503

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Foreign Members. (No longer available online.) Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, archived from the original on October 9, 2014 ; accessed on May 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernard Weiner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography of Bernard Weiner