Attribution & its Effects



Attribution & its Effects

The term attribution has several distinct meanings. In the 1920s, Austrian philosopher and psychologist Heider (2001) originally referred to attribution as a central process in human perception that helped solve a philosophical puzzle of the time. According to Heider (2001), the mind perceives objects that exist in the world, but the perception itself exists in the mind; how, then, can people experience objects as “out there” rather than “in here,” in their own minds? Heider argued that humans engage in a psychological process of attributing their subjective experiences to objects in the world (Heider, ...