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attributional

attributional

8.1
About how people explain the cause of something
  • adjective
  • /ˌætrɪˈbjuːʃənl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : atribucional
  • The psychologist studied attributional tendencies to understand how people assign blame or praise in social situations.
  • attributional style
  • attributional complexity
  • attributional bias

So what's behind those attributional sort of starting points?

Examples

  • An additional aspect of children's attributional processes involves how they explain their own social successes and failures.

    Academic text (1999)
  • A particularly important source of bias has emerged from work on attributional style.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Most studies have been concerned with attributional patterns after players know the outcome of the game.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Thus, future research should examine the influence of attributional styles and dimensions on the development of momentum.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Thus, a conclusion about the relative importance of these two classes of attributional variables is not warranted at present.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Third, optimistic planning and attributional strategies functioned differently for men and women.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Another feasible explanation supports previous research regarding the possible benefits of an "optimistic" attributional response in task failure situations.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Furthermore, these youth more frequently maintain hostile attributional biases than do their nonaggressive peers.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Moreover, self-serving attributional bias was associated negatively with loneliness among men but positively among women.

    Academic text (1997)
  • The various operationalizations of the major attributional variables generally predicted judgments of altruism quite robustly.

    Academic text (1991)

Surface Forms

attributional positive

Morphology

attributional = attribution (transparent) = attribute + ion + al

The adjective is a standard derivation from 'attribution' with the suffix '-al', meaning 'relating to attribution'.

Etymology

Attributional also uses the idea of 'giving' found in ad- 'to' and tribuere 'give', which helps you remember its second meaning. That's why attributional thinking is about 'giving' or assigning a cause or reason for something.