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naive analysis of action

naive analysis of action

in attribution theory, a process of reasoning or intuiting by which laypersons determine whether another person (an “actor”) caused a certain action. Also called lay psychology; naive psychology. See correspondent inference theory. [postulated in 1958 by Fritz Heider]

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