People tend to attribute things to pure achievement that are, in fact, not attributable to achievement.
Liberals tend to attribute Mr. Bush's decline to what they call his right-wing policies.
Managers tend to attribute such nonacceptance to employees' pride or defensiveness.
Unsuccessful participants tend to attribute their failure to external factors and opt for more redistribution.
While some authors stress positive effects, others tend to attribute a largely negative influence to plantations.
In other words, researchers tend to attribute to twins' genes what ought to be attributed to their peculiar shared environment.
So when historians see a fabulous painting they tend to attribute it to a well-known man".
We tend to attribute more prestige, power and ascendancy to academic-serialist styles of music than they deserve.
We provide evidence that investors tend to attribute external (i.e., non-manager-related) causes of firm performance to managers' performance.
So voters tend to attribute all outcomes, positive or negative, to the president, regardless of what actually happened.
(Similarly, studies have demonstrated that winning athletes tend to attribute their success to their own superior skills, while losing athletes tend to attribute their failure to bad luck or to their opponents' unfairness).
