[
US
/ˌætɹɪbˈjuʃən/
]
[ UK /ɐtɹɪbjˈuːʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɐtɹɪbjˈuːʃən/ ]
NOUN
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assigning some quality or character to a person or thing
the attribution of language to birds
the ascription to me of honors I had not earned -
assigning to a cause or source
he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso
the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath
How To Use attribution In A Sentence
- I argue that the relationship between past success and convergent thinking may depend on the attributions that groups generate to explain their shared success.
- We also fall prey to the fundamental attribution error, where we overvalue "dispositional" elements "She's bad at money" and undervalue NYT > Home Page
- This attribution is based on the similarities between the depiction of Christ and his flock and other designs that have been documented to Wilson.
- That use of the passive in written language which allows non-attribution of agency is typically absent from conversational speech.
- After notice and a period for comments, Creative Commons has versioned the attribution clause in our licenses.
- The lack of documentary evidence has precluded the attribution of a direct causal relationship between the two.
- My point is why make the claim for a developed canon in the first place, especially when it is based on conjectural attributions and dates.
- Thus we make attributions of causal relatedness on the basis of prior acceptance of scientific explanations.
- Given this insight, efforts to curb aggression in children of all ages have moved to include what Larry Aber calls "attributional retraining"; that is, helping children step back when something happens to them and make sense of the situation. Ellen Galinsky: Reducing Conflict in Children: Lessons From Larry Aber
- They revealed a host of misunderstandings, including patients thinking doctors had information when they didn't, doctors thinking patients understood something when they didn't, and misattribution of side effects.