How Do the Kinds of Attributions We Tend to Make

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Essay

How do the kinds of attributions we tend to make about ourselves differ from those we make about other people?

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Definitions:

Electric Company

A utility company that generates, transmits, and distributes electricity to consumers and businesses.

Tragedy of the Commons

A situation in which individual users of a shared resource act in their own interest, depleting or degrading the common resource.

Negative Externality

A cost suffered by a third party as a consequence of an economic transaction in which they were not involved.

Common Resource

A resource like air or water, that provides users with tangible benefits but is difficult to exclude nonpaying users from consuming or depleting.