Sousa, Elizabeth2013-05-252013-05-251988Análise Psicológica, 6 (3/4), 347-3660870-8231http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/2213The author discusses the social dimension of attribution judgments. These are seen as social strategies aimed at ensuring a feeling of positivity - moderate superiority - and constrained by two interdependent factors: power and dominance. The interaction of these elements with the source of threat to the identity determines the response pattern adopted by the individual; ingroup favouritism, outgroup favouritism, ingroup derogation, imparciality and self-differentiation.porjournal article