- A lot of stuff like empathy, emotional intelligence etc come from how people view attribution. - Attribution is basically what we attribute to any outcome i.e. how did a specific person arrive at a particular situation. - There's inherently a bias to think that we are in control of our positive outcomes and that our negative outcomes are circumstances. We tend to think the opposite for others. ---- "the study of human cause and effect is called “attribution.” In other words, to what do we attribute any given human outcome—from the everyday “How was I able to do that?” to the existential “How did I end up here?” Attribution is the foundation to how we see and judge ourselves and others - [Link](https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_do_people_succeed_or_fail_in_life_your_answer_matters) It “provides the building blocks for a lot of the other processes—things like perspective taking, empathy, conceptions of privilege are all downstream consequences of the attributions one engages in,” says Paul K Piff, associate professor of psychological science at the University of California, Irvine, whose research focuses on issues like social hierarchy, status, and inequality" - [Link](https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_do_people_succeed_or_fail_in_life_your_answer_matters)