attributional
- adjective
- /ˌætrɪˈbjuːʃənl/
- Specialized
- 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?
- So what's behind those attributional sort of starting points?
Examples
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An additional aspect of children's attributional processes involves how they explain their own social successes and failures.
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A particularly important source of bias has emerged from work on attributional style.
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Most studies have been concerned with attributional patterns after players know the outcome of the game.
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Thus, future research should examine the influence of attributional styles and dimensions on the development of momentum.
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Thus, a conclusion about the relative importance of these two classes of attributional variables is not warranted at present.
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Third, optimistic planning and attributional strategies functioned differently for men and women.
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Another feasible explanation supports previous research regarding the possible benefits of an "optimistic" attributional response in task failure situations.
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Furthermore, these youth more frequently maintain hostile attributional biases than do their nonaggressive peers.
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Moreover, self-serving attributional bias was associated negatively with loneliness among men but positively among women.
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The various operationalizations of the major attributional variables generally predicted judgments of altruism quite robustly.
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Surface Forms
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.