situational attribution

The model explained the conditions under which people will make informed dispositional versus situational attributions.

The difficulties of establishing common ground, especially in using telecommunications technology, can give rise to dispositional rather than situational attribution.

Another method of reconditioning is known as Situational Attribution Training.

In general, people tend to make dispositional attributions more often than situational attributions when trying to explain or understand a person's behavior.

Humans attempt to explain the actions of others through either dispositional attribution or situational attribution.

External attribution, also called situational attribution, refers to interpreting someone's behavior as being caused by the situation that the individual is in.

Dispositionalism is the general tendency to prefer dispositional attribution rather than situational attribution.

These results demonstrate a tendency for older people to rely more heavily on situational attributions (life experience) as opposed to internal attributions.

The results of the experiment favor situational attribution of behavior rather than dispositional attribution (a result caused by internal characteristics).

Alternatively, situational attributions are more likely reached when consensus is high, consistency is high, and distinctiveness is high.

Instead of looking at situational attributions, personality psychology evaluates a person with dispositional attributions, making the false-consensus effect relatively irrelevant in that domain.

When considering people we like (including ourselves), we tend to make situational attributions about their negative behaviors and dis-positional attributions about their positive behaviors.

In particular, elementary school students are more likely to make dispositional attributions when their friends perform positive behaviors, but situational attributions when disliked peers perform positive behaviors.

Situational attribution, also referred to as external attribution, attempts to point to the context around the person and factors of his surroundings, particularly things that are completely out of his control.

A citizen claiming that a lack of economic progress is not a fault of the president but rather the fact that he inherited a poor economy from the previous president is situational attribution.

When trying to persuade others to like us or another person, we tend to explain positive behaviors and accomplishments with dispositional attribution, but our own negative behaviors and shortcomings with situational attributions.