What Is the Main Reason We Tend to Make Attributions

question 73

Multiple Choice

What is the main reason we tend to make attributions about the causes of events, others' behaviour and our own behaviour?

• A) We have a strong need to understand our experiences.
• B) Attribution making was selected for at some point in our ancestral past.
• C) We have an unconscious urge to psychoanalyse the behaviour of others.
• D) Having access to information about others tends to fulfill our need for power.

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