In the world of Social Psychology attributions are the inferences that we make about the causes of event and behavior of another person, when we make attributions so we can understand our experiences, these strongly influence the way we interact with others. There are two dimensions of attributions the internal vs. external and the stable vs. unstable, when combining these two dimensions we are able to classify a particular attribution as being internal-stable, internal-unstable, external-stable, or external-unstable.
Internal vs. External.
In an internal attribution we infer any event or a individual's behavior is due to personal factors which goes on the basis of traits, abilities, or feelings; whereas, the external attribution we infer that a person's behavior is due to situational factors.
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For example, If some one is running late for an important interview, if they believe they are late because of their ignorance about the sense of time, they are making an internal attribution but, if they believe that the loss of time happened because they had another person keeping them from getting to their interview on time they are making an external attribution.
Stable vs. Unstable
When we make a stable attribution we infer that an event or behavior is due to stable never changing factors but, when we make an unstable attribution we infer that an event or behavior is due to unstable temporary factors.
For example Maria gets a A on her Political Science term paper, if she makes a attribution the grade to the fact that she always has good luck, she is making a stable attribution. If she attributes the grade to the fact that she did give all her effort and time to study that week, she is making an unstable attribution.
Its very funny when we make these attributions in our life but, its even funnier when we make these types of attributions we never took time to really understand why these things happen and, the factors that lead to the next event in life.
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