Editing Attribution bias (section)

====Attribution theory====
Research on [[Attribution bias#attribution bias|attribution biases]] is founded in [[attribution theory]], which was proposed to explain why and how people create meaning about others' and their own behavior. This theory focuses on identifying how an observer uses information in his/her social environment in order to create a causal explanation for events. Attribution theory also provides explanations for why different people can interpret the same event in different ways and what factors contribute to attribution biases.<ref name="Himmelfarb 1974">{{cite journal | last1 = Himmelfarb | first1 = S. |display-authors=et al | year = 1974 | title = Attribution: Perceiving the causes of behavior | journal = Behavioral Science | volume = 19 | issue = 3| pages = 213–215 | doi=10.1002/bs.3830190308}}</ref>

Psychologist [[Fritz Heider]] first discussed attributions in his 1958 book, ''The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations''.<ref name="Heider"/> Heider made several contributions that laid the foundation for further research on attribution theory and attribution biases. He noted that people tend to make distinctions between behaviors that are caused by personal disposition versus environmental or situational conditions. He also predicted that people are more likely to explain others' behavior in terms of dispositional factors (i.e., caused by a given person's personality), while ignoring the surrounding situational demands.