Talk:Attribution (psychology)/Archives/2017

Difficult Passage to Edit

[Excerpt] From the book The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations (1958), Fritz Heider tried to explore the nature of interpersonal relationship, and espoused the concept of what he called "common sense" or "naïve psychology". In his theory, he believed that people observe, analyze, and explain behaviors with explanations. Although people have different kinds of explanations for the events of human behaviors, Heider found it is very useful to group explanation into two categories; Internal (personal) and external (situational) attributions.[7] [End Except]

Is there a better way to explain this? I don't know enough about this topic yet which is why I was reading and kept following links to understand.

"...people observe, analyze, and explain behaviors with explanations." Seems circular.

"...people have different kinds of explanations..." Is there a better word to use than explanation throughout?

"...useful to group explanation into two categories..." I thought to replace explanation with theory but the premise of this section is a theory.

I thought of using reasons instead of explanation but it's not a great fit throughout.

I found it difficult to understand some of these passages which makes me appreciate that much more how difficult it is to write it. Sumi Smorynski (talk) 23:26, 1 July 2017 (UTC)