Attribution example sentences

Pro-social behaviour may be reduced by factors such as a bad mood, being busy with one's own problems, or feeling that the person to be helped is responsible for her/his own situation (that is, when an internal attribution is made for the need state of the other person).This may result in coalition formation of likeminded parties, thereby increasing the apprehensions of both parties resulting in misperceptions, and biased interpretations and attributions.For example, if you yourself get good marks in a test, you will attribute it to your own ability or hard work (actor-role, internal attribution for a positive experience).Often perceivers may form only an impression about the target, but if the situation requires it, they may also make attributions to the target.A distinction is also found between the attribution that a person makes for her/ his own positive and negative experiences (actor-role), and the attribution made for another person's positive and negative experiences (observer-role).Dust is composed of fine solid particles (over 1?m in diameter), produced during crushing, grinding and attribution of solid materials.On the other hand, if one of your classmates gets good marks in the test, you will attribute her/his success to good luck or an easy test (observer-role, external attribution for a positive experience).In making attributions, there is an overall tendency for people to give greater weightage to internal or dispositional factors, than to external or situational factors.If the same classmate gets bad marks, you are likely to say that her/his failure was because of low ability or lack of effort (observerrole, internal attribution for a negative experience).For instance, research shows that Indians tend to make more external (situational) attributions than Americans do.ery often, impression formation and attributions are influenced by attitudes.Attaching or assigning a cause for the target's behaviour is the main idea in attribution.In attribution, the perceiver goes further, and explains why the target behaved in a particular way.The process of coming to know a person can be broadly divided into two parts : (a) Impression formation, and (b) Attribution.If you get bad marks, you will say that this was because you were unlucky, or that the test was too difficult (actor-role, external attribution for a negative experience).