attributional

/ˌætrəˈbjuːʃənəl/
adjective
  1. Relating to the act of assigning a quality, feature, or cause to someone or something.
    • Psychologists study attributional patterns to understand how people explain events.
    • Her attributional style tends to credit her own efforts for successes and external factors for failures.
    • The attributional error in the report blamed the wrong department for the delay.
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