Sentence examples for external attribution from inspiring English sources

My mental script is, "This is about me, not about that or them". Emotions come prepackaged with tacit external attribution.

These findings suggest that endorsement of the concept of food addiction may encourage people to self-diagnose as food addicts and thus explain their eating behaviour in terms of addiction (an external attribution).

Research in the area of auditory hallucinations has found that the occurrence of a hallucinatory experience is mediated, in part, by a bias towards making an external attribution for private events and experiences.

An external attribution means I understand a person's behaviour to be a product of context, so, this driver may have had to swerve due to my own position on the road, or may not have had enough room to manoeuvre because of the position of other cars.

The primacy of external attribution is replaced with the primacy of internal attribution of events.

Kelley & Michela (1980) examines how people decide whether an internal or an external attribution will be made.

In the main theme, students attributed their poor academic performance to external attributions.

But most failures have both internal and external causes, and too often, people use external attributions exclusively.

These findings suggest that hallucinatory-prone individuals not only make external attributions for private events and experiences, but are more likely to make external attributions to social interpersonal events as well.

The ability to increase patients' self-efficacy in their control over pain and to decrease external attributions are essential to successful pain management.

In one study, Edward Tomlinson of John Carroll University and Roy Lewicki of Ohio State University found that participants viewed apologies to be more sincere when they included internal attributions for the harm (for example, "It was my fault") than when the apologies included external attributions ("Market conditions were poor").