We were surprised to learn that by almost a 2-to-1 margin patients attributed themselves, not the care they received, as the more significant impediment to their improvement.
"Individuals in social networks are endowed not only with network ties, but identities: sets of characteristics that they attribute to themselves and others by virtue of their association with, and participation in, social groups".
Nonetheless, as this brief survey indicates, the self-relation they thereby attribute to themselves is extremely difficult to pin down.[22] I am grateful to Sven Nyholm for prodding me to see ways in which I could improve the entry when I was revising it for the first time.
For example, Bem cites classic research in social psychology suggesting that when induced to perform an action for a small reward, people will attribute to themselves a more positive attitude toward that action than when they are induced by a large reward (Festinger and Carlsmith 1959; see also Section 4.2.2 below).
Sometimes they fully attribute to themselves, sometimes they remain deliberately vague until they feel like saying, "it was us".
But biases, like the self-serving bias and optimism bias, lead the wealthy to attribute to themselves what is actually caused by factors beyond their control.
Attributes themselves are stored in a local dictionary called attributes.
It is not these attributes themselves that are the problem, of course, but how they are made salient, and how they are manipulated.
This is due to the fact that entrepreneurial attributes themselves are very critical.
