Attribution in social psychology is the method of determining the reasons for events or behaviors. Attribution is used in our daily life, usually without any knowledge of the underlying mechanisms and prejudices that contribute to our self serving biases. Therefore attribution perspective unfolds the cause of human behavior.
Attribution process is a term associated with the field of psychology and was introduced by a psychologist named Fritz Heider during the 1920s.
The attribution process is described as a process that infers the reason behind an individual's behavior or an event. It refers to the phenomenon that includes everything that a person generally does in day-to-day life in the absence of any awareness related to the underlying processes and specific biases that creates interference.
There are two distinct types of attribution processes including:
American colonists felt suppressed and unfairly treated by British rule, so when we broke away from that we shaped our society with the goal of freedom and independence. we did not want to feel like we did under British rule, and we wanted to be and be seen as greater
