RISA DICKSON ( PhD, University of Southern California) is Assistant Profes- sor of Communication Studies, California State University, San Bernardino. Her interests include attribution processes, attachment styles, and communi- cation among the aging.
PHILOMENA ESSED, Center for Race and Ethnic Studies, University of Am- sterdam, has published articles in the fields of race relations theory, social psychology, discourse studies, and feminist theory. Her research interests in- clude the development of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives on the experience of Black women. She is the author of Everyday Racism and Understanding Everyday Racism.
FRANK D. FINCHAM was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he obtained his PhD. Since then he has conducted research on marital dys- function and on the relationship between marital and child problems. His work has resulted in career awards from the British Psychological Society and the International Network on Personal Relationships.
ADRIAN FURNHAM was educated at the London School of Economics and Oxford University and is currently Reader in Psychology at University Col- lege, London. His interests lie mainly in applied, occupational, personality and social psychology. He has published ten books and about 250 papers on these topics. His most current interests include lay theories of psychotherapy and of occupational success.
JOHN H. HARVEY is Professor of Psychology at the University of Iowa. His primary area of interest is attribution theory, especially as applied to the dy- namics of close relationships. His books include (with W. J. Ickes and R. F. Kidd) the New Directions in Attribution Research series, (with G. Weary) Per- spectives on Attributional Processes, (with H. H. Kelley et al.) Close Rela- tionships, and the forthcoming Attribution, Accounts, and Close Relationships (with T. L. Orbuch and A. L. Weber).
DENIS HILTON was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at ZUMA, Mannheim and the Universität Mannheim during the period of the research reported in this volume. He has also taught and researched at universities in Great Britain and the United States, and is interested in processes of causal explanation.
MANSUR LALLJEE obtained a degree in Philosophy at Bombay University, and then studied Psychology and Philosophy at Oxford University, where he went on to complete his PhD in Psychology. He is currently in the Depart- ment of Applied Social Studies and Social Research at Oxford, where he is a Fellow of Jesus College. He has held visiting appointments at Trinity Col- lege, Dublin; the University of New South Wales, Sydney; and Yale Univer-
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