Attributional Style Refers To How People Explain The Events Of Their Lives
Attributional style refers to how people explain the events of their lives, there are three facets of how people can explain a situation, these three facets can influence whether they lean toward being optimists or pessimists. Optimists believe that good things happen to them due to themselves and see negative events as not being their fault. Pessimists think in the opposite way, they believe that negative events are caused by them and positive events as flukes are caused by things outside their control and probably won’t happen again. I personally feel like my approach to things is a pessimistic style. For example, in my studio classes when my professor is impressed by my work I believe that is by sheer luck and I finally did something right for once, but the chance of that happening again in the future is unlikely, I would feel like I have more pressure to do even better on the next project. I believe that elections are based on the public’s personal impression on the candidates rather than the candidate's views on important issues. The reason for that is because as human beings, we instantly “judge the book by its cover”, we naturally do this because we are dependent on our observations of others to determine what kind of a person they are. We take in account of their appearance, verbal behavior, actions, nonverbal messages and situations. No matter what the candidate’s view on important issues are, it will not matter when the public has already made a decision about how they personally feel towards them. For example, a negative quality or information about a candidate will outweigh any positive qualities the candidate may have. Therefore, whatever they are proposing it will seem meaningless and irrelevant. Attribution in social behavior is the process of inferring the causes of events or behaviors. For example, in real life, attribution is something we all do every day, usually without any awareness of the underlying processes and biases that lead to