Surely everyone faced a situation wheredue to the lack of information, misinterpretation of other people's emotions and feelings, a person misinterprets one or another act of another. Most often, these conclusions are based on our own conjectures or the prevailing opinion about a person.
History and study of the phenomenon in psychology
The founder of the term "causal attribution" inPsychology became a researcher F. Haider in the middle of the twentieth century. For the first time, he voiced schemes showing the reasons why a person creates an opinion about an event or person. Haider's idea was immediately picked up by other psychologists, in particular, Lee Ross and George Kelly.

Criteria for attributing reasons for behavior to Kelly.
A significant step in the development of psychology has helpedmake causal attribution as a phenomenon of interpersonal communication. In his theory, Kelly tried to establish what criteria a person uses when trying to explain the reasons for someone else's behavior. During the research, 3 criteria were established:
this behavior is constant for a person (constancy criterion);
a person differs from others in such behavior (criterion of exclusivity);
ordinary behavior (criterion of consensus).

The manifestation of causal attribution in relation to themselves and others

A feature of this phenomenon is thata person applies to himself completely different motives of behavior. Errors of causal attribution consist in the fact that a person substantiates other people's actions with personal qualities. But he explains his actions by external circumstances - of course, because we are more lenient towards ourselves. In a situation when the other person did not fulfill the task entrusted to him, we give him the title of a lazy and irresponsible person. If I did not complete the task, it means that the weather prevented me, loud music behind the wall, feeling unwell, etc. The reason for this view is that we consider our behavior to be normal, and we treat behavior that is different from ours as abnormal.