Abstract
Attributions to ambiguous interaction situations from the point of view of the target and the perpetra tor. The purpose of this research is to test if there is a difference between the explanations people give in ambiguous situations depending on which group they belong to, a discriminated or discriminatory group. Thirty-three Canarian participants and 31 Mainlanders filled in a questionnaire which included several behaviors likely to be interpreted in a hostile way. Three causes were provided for each behavior. One of the causes referred to the mainland origin of the person, another cause referred to personal characteristics related to the mainland stereotypes and the last cause was a filler. The results confirm the attributional differences between Mainlanders and Canarians. More precisely, the Canarians tended to refer to the stereotypical characteristic of the person whereas the Mainlanders tended to use more the group explanation.
