Beliefs concerning the features of constrained behavior: A basis for the fundamental attribution error.

The fundamental attribution error (FAE) was conceptualized in terms of implicit beliefs linking dispositions to features of constrained action. Essays, positionally congruent with their writer's attitude, were judged (by writers and observers) to be stronger, easier to write, and more likely to evoke a correspondent attribution than were incongruent essays. Additional evidence suggested that these judgments reflected a bias directed at confirming expectations generated by the specified attitude. The reverse of this process, inferring an attitude on the basis of an essay feature, was examined using a contrast-effect procedure to induce the perception of identical essays as strong or weak. The resulting FAE was exaggerated in the strong- but completely attenuated in the weak-essay condition. The results clarify the basis for viewing constrained behavior as having diagnostic value. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Preparation and Properties of Sodium, Potassium, Magnesium, Calcium, and Aluminum Terephthalates

Group I–III terephthalates were prepared: KOOCC₆H₄COOH, NaOOCC₆H₄COOH, NaOOCC₆H₄COONa, Mg(OOCC₆H₄COO) · 2H₂O, Ca(OOCC₆H₄COO) · 3H₂O, and Al₂(OOCC₆H₄COO)₃ · 8H₂O. The salts were characterized by differential thermal analysis and IR spectroscopy. The results demonstrate that the thermal decomposition of the terephthalates yields metal carbonates or oxides. On heating to 1000°C, aluminum terephthalate converts into submicron-sized -alumina particles.