The Role of Information Processing in Making Causal Attributions for Success and Failure

Attribution theory is concerned with how people interpret information about their own behavior and the behavior of others in making judgments about the underlying causes of events. It is assumed that people implicitly or explicitly are constantly making causal attributions about every salient event in their lives. These causal judgments or perceptions are believed to be central to people's understanding of their environment and to the formation of predictions about the future.