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  2. Covariation model - Wikipedia

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    Harold Kelley's covariation model (1967, 1971, 1972, 1973) [1] is an attribution theory in which people make causal inferences to explain why other people and ourselves behave in a certain way. It is concerned with both social perception and self-perception (Kelley, 1973).

  3. Attribution (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Fritz Heider discovered Attribution theory during a time when psychologists were furthering research on personality, social psychology, and human motivation. [5] Heider worked alone in his research, but stated that he wished for Attribution theory not to be attributed to him because many different ideas and people were involved in the process. [5]

  4. Attribution bias - Wikipedia

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    This theory focuses on identifying how an observer uses information in his/her social environment in order to create a causal explanation for events. Attribution theory also provides explanations for why different people can interpret the same event in different ways and what factors contribute to attribution biases. [10]

  5. List of social psychology theories - Wikipedia

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    Attribution theory – is concerned with the ways in which people explain (or attribute) the behaviour of others. The theory divides the way people attribute causes to events into two types. External or "situational" attributions assign causality to an outside factor, such as the weather.

  6. Attributions for poverty - Wikipedia

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    Attributions for poverty is a theory concerned with what people believe about the causes of poverty.These beliefs are defined in terms of attribution theory, which is a social psychological perspective on how people make causal explanations about events in the world. [1]

  7. Fundamental attribution error - Wikipedia

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    Several theories predict the fundamental attribution error, and thus both compete to explain it, and can be falsified if it does not occur. Some examples include: Just-world fallacy. The belief that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get, the concept of which was first theorized by Melvin J. Lerner in 1977. [11]

  8. Causality - Wikipedia

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    For example, in Aristotle's efficient causal explanation, ... Attribution: Attribution theory is the theory concerning how people explain individual occurrences of ...

  9. Harold Kelley - Wikipedia

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    Harold Kelley (February 16, 1921 – January 29, 2003) was an American social psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles.His major contributions have been the development of interdependence theory (with John Thibaut), [1] [2] the early work of attribution theory, [3] and a lifelong interest in understanding close relationships processes.