Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1992 · 27 citations · 21 references
Vulnerability FactorTrained ImmunityPsychosocial DeterminantImmunologyImmune SystemImmunotherapySocial SciencesPsychologyInternal AttributionsPrevious Controllable ExperienceImmunological MemoryPsychoneuroimmunologyCognitive ScienceBehavioral SciencesSelf-toleranceHumoral ImmunityTolerance InductionExperimental PsychologyBehavior Change (Individual)Social CognitionVaccinationAttribution TheoryMedicine
Three experiments were conducted to determine the effect of global and internal attributions on immunization against learned helplessness. Immunization was a function of a previous controllable experience, and attributions represented a vulnerability factor that modulated the actual influence of previous experiences on new tasks.
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