shing water on the man. If the man believes that the driver could have avoided splashing him, he will feel angry. On the other hand, if he believes that the driver had no choice, he will not experience anger.
Weiner (1980) also researched the relation of causal attributions to future expectations. Specifically, our expectations of future events are, according to Weiner, influenced by our attributions for past events. In this regard, we are likely to expect future successes if we attribute our past successes to our ability (Weiner, Russell & Lerman, 1979).
Regarding the historical work on causal attribution theory and its relation to sport, a good deal of the foundational work in this area was accomplished by Weiner and his associates in their work on associations between causal attributions and achievement motivation. For example, Weiner and Kukla (1970) conducted six experiments in which causal attribution was related to achievement motivation. These experiments revealed the following important relationships between these two var
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