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Institution
Victoria University of Wellintgon
Current Position
Associate Professor
Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Psychology from Oxford, 1987
Research Interests
 | Applied Social Psychology |
| Attribution |
| Judgment/Decision Making |
| Motivation/Goal Setting |
| Person Perception |
| Social Cognition |
Courses Taught
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John McClure
P.O. Box 600
School of Psychology
Victoria University of Wellintgon
Wellington 6001
New Zealand
Home Page
Phone: +64 4 4635233
Fax: +64 4 4635402
My research interests centre around several areas of social judgment: Causal attributions (folk psychology); helplessness and fatalism; biases such as unrealistic optimism; and risk judgments.
Current projects include:
--How do people's risk judgments, optimism, and attributions for events influence their fatalism about those events and their willingness to take preventive action;
--People's explanations of the actions of individuals with invisible conditions that affect behaviour, such as brain injury;
--How do people perceive and explain intentional actions?
 Books:
- McClure, J. L. (1991). Explanations, accounts and illusions: A critical analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Journal Articles:
- Boyd-Wilson, B., Walkey, F., & McClure, J. (2000). Do we need positive lllusions to carry out plans: Illusions and instrumental coping. Personality and Individual Differences, 29, 1141-1152.
- McClure, J., Densley L., Liu, J. H, & Allen, M. (2001). Constraints on equifinality: Goals are good explanations only for controllable outcomes. British Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 99-115.
- McClure, J., Devlin, M. E., McDowall, J., & Wade, K. (2006). Visible markers of brain injury influence attributions for adolescents’ behaviour. Brain Injury, 10, 1029-1035.
- McClure, J., Hilton, D. J., & Sutton, R. M. (2007). Judgments of voluntary and physical causes in causal chains: Probabilistic and social functionalist criteria for attributions. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 879-901.
- McClure, J. L. (2002). Goal based explanations of actions and outcomes. European Review of Social Psychology, 12, 201-235.
- McClure, J. L. (1998). Discounting causes of behavior: Are two reasons better than one. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 7-20.
- McClure, J. L., Allen, M. W., & Walkey, F. H. (2001). Countering fatalism: Causal information in news reports affects judgements about earthquake damage. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 23, 109-121.
- McClure, J. L., & Hilton, D. (1998). Are goals or preconditions better explanations: It depends on the question. European Journal of Social Psychology, 28, 897-911.
- McClure, J. L., & Hilton, D. (1997). You can't always get what you want: when circumstances are better explanations than goals. British Journal of Social Psychology, 36, 223-240.
- McClure J. L., Hilton, D. J., Cowan, J., Ishida, L., & Wilson, M. (2001). When people explain difficult actions, is the causal question how or why? Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 20, 339-357.
- McClure, J. L., Walkey, F., & Allen, M. (1999). When earthquake damage is seen as preventable: Attributions, locus of control and attitudes to risk. Applied Psychology: An international review, 48, 239-256.
- McClure, J., Sutton, R M., & Sibley, C. (2007). Listening to reporters or engineers: How different messages about building design affect earthquake fatalism. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 37, 1956-1973.
- Price, J., McClure, J. L., & Siegert, R. J. (2000). What might have been and why is wasn’t: Counterfactual thinking and attributions in competitive tennis players. New Zealand Journal of Sports Medicine, 28, 25-34.
- Sutton, R., & McClure, J. (2001). Covariational influences on goal-based explanation: An integrative model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 222-236.
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