a description of the way in which people explain the causes of their own and other people's behavior
the study of how people understand and explain the causes of behavior.
A theory about the process by which we try to explain a person's behavior, attributing it to situational factors or to inferred dispositional qualities or both. See also actor-observer difference, fundamental attribution error, self-serving attributional bias.
The process of attributing causality to events. [1
a framework for predicting the causal inferences people make to explain their own and/or other persons' behaviors
When individuals observe behaviour, they try to determine whether it is internally or externally caused. 35
A theory used to develop explanations of how we judge people differently depending on the meaning we attribute to a given behavior.
A group of theories that describe how people explain the causes of behavior.
In the psychology of personality, an explanation of social behaviour by attributing to it the core characteristics of the individual rather than the specifics of the situation they might be in.
A general theoretical perspective in social psychology concerned with the issue of social perception.
Attribution theory is a field of social psychology, which was born out of the theoritical models of Fritz Heider, Harold Kelley, Edward E. Jones, and Lee Ross. Attribution theory is concerned with the ways in which people explain (or attribute) the behavior of others. It explores how individuals "attribute" causes to events and how this cognitive perception affects their motivation. Think of "explanation" as a synonym and "why" as the question to be answered.
A theory of how individuals find explanations for events.
Attribution theory is a field of social psychology, which was born out of the theoretical models of Fritz Heider, Harold Kelley, Edward E. Jones, and Lee Ross and then developed by psychologists such as Bernard Weiner.