The Antecedents and Consequences of Defensive Attributions in 2025

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Attribution theory focuses on both antecedents and consequences of perceived causality. Antecedents or determinants of attributions may be beneficial or harmful, and they include teacher behaviors such as communicated sympathy, offering praise, and unsolicited help that indirectly function as low-ability cues.
Defensive attributions predict negative victim perception to decrease as the similarity of the observer to the victim increases, this being a defense mechanism to protect the observer from being blamed themselves if a similar fate should befall him or her in the future.
The defensive attribution hypothesis (Shaver, 1970) supposes that the victim or eyewitness to an accident tends to explain the accident situation so that personal responsibility is minimized. The observers are motivated more to avoid blame than to discern the true causes for the sake of accident pre- vention.
The correct option that is best classified as a defensive attribution is D. just-world belief, which suggests that people get what they deserve in life. This belief leads individuals to blame victims of misfortune to maintain a sense of safety and fairness in the world.