attributional bias

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bias
noun
uk
/ˈbaɪ.əs/
us
/ˈbaɪ.əs/
the action of supporting or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair way, because of allowing personal opinions to influence ...
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(Definition ofbiasfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Components of hostileattributionalbiasinclude a tendency to blame others for one's negative outcomes and not to blame the self.
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Under person-specific circumstances, some children continue a pattern of stable hostileattributionalbias.
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Attributionalbiasamong aggressive boys to interpret unambiguous social stimuli as displays of hostility.
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This article concerns one concept that has grown out of translational science: hostileattributionalbias.
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First, the phenomenon of hostileattributionalbiasin aggressive persons will be reviewed briefly.
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Compared with randomly assigned controls, women assigned to intervention did indeed display lower hostileattributionalbiasscores after intervention.
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Compared with randomly assigned controls, youths who had been assigned to intervention later reported lower hostileattributionalbiasscores and modest aggressive behavior change.
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A good deal of scientific effort has gone into testing the causal direction of the correlation between hostileattributionalbiasand aggressive behavior.
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It appears from our findings that neither a hostileattributionalbiasnor rejection sensitivity precludes an accurate perception of how one is viewed by others.
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Hostileattributionalbiasmay be considered a cognitive component of this system of reactivity.
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Next, knowledge from the basic sciences relevant to hostileattributionalbiasand aggressive behavior will be synthesized, including knowledge from ethology, neuroscience, social psychology, personality psychology, and developmental psychology.
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Nevertheless, we believe that a singleattributionalbiasof whatever form is probably unable to account for the wide array of relationship problems in varying contexts measured in this study.
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Hedonistic relevance is an example of anattributionalbias.
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Thisattributionalbiasintuitively plays a role in the formation and maintenance of stereotypes and prejudice, combined with the negativity effect.
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Thus, the similarity of the witness to the victim in terms of situation or personality is required for the defensiveattributionalbiasto be activated.
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It is, of course, possible that attributional biases fail to identify children with peer problems.
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There were no neighborhood context moderator effects on children's aggressive and competent interpersonal negotiation strategies, nor on their hostile attributional biases.
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This point is illustrated with findings on attributional biases among disadvantaged, minority youth.
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