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3 Attribution TheoryFinding Good Cause in the Search for TheoryValerie Manusov and Brian SpitzbergHumans are an inquisitive species: We wonder why and how things occur,and we develop religions, philosophies, and sciences as ways of answer-ing our questions. Such curiosity influences our cultural, societal, interper-sonal, and personal lives in intricate ways. We can easily see many everydayexamples of this in our own minds and in our conversations with friends: Weask ourselves why another person looks so lonely, we think about why we didnot get a job, and we talk to others to try to figure out why the person we wentout with on Saturday has not called us since then. After all, it s Tuesday!So fundamental is the process of asking and answering why questions trying to figure out what caused something else that it has been characterizedas a basic human activity (Heider, 1958), and a family of theories has devel-oped to illumine how and why things happen as they do.
3 Attribution Theory Finding Good Cause in the Search for Theory Valerie Manusov and Brian Spitzberg H umans are an inquisitive species: We wonder why and how things occur,
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