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:
Daniel Shay led the Shays rebellion, which was a rebellion against debt collection, as many of the farmers were poor and could not afford to pay their debts. Their goal was to destroy the documents that hold their debts, as well as acquire items of value to sustain their livelihood.
