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underattribute

verb

Etymology

From under- + attribute.

  1. borrowed from attributus
  2. prefixed as underattribute — “under + attribute”

Definitions

  1. To attribute insufficiently or inadequately.

    • Our tendency to overattribute behavior to dispositions and underattribute it to circumstances is known as the fundamental attribution error (Ross, 1977).
    • Because of this, particualr discernment is needed to determine whether the diagnosis is a useful narrative for understanding a person's experience, with care to neither over- nor underattribute symptoms to that diagnosis.
    • Most of us tend to overattribute our successes to ourselves rather than to circumstances, and conversely to underattribute our failures to ourselves.

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