Bernard Weiner

Bernard Weiner (born 1935) is a cognitive psychologist who is known for developing a form of attribution theory that explains the emotional and motivational entailments of academic success and failure. He has published 15 books and many articles on the psychology of motivation and emotion.

Papers
Weiner, B. (1979) A theory of motivation for some classroom experiences, Journal of Educational Psychology 71:3-25. Weiner, B. (1985) An attributional theory of achievement motivation and emotion, Psychological Review 92: 548-73. Weiner, B., Nicrenberg, R. and Goldstein, M. (1976) Social learning (locus of control) versus attributional (causal stability) interpretations of expectancy of success, Journal of Personality 44: 52-68.