{"id":7323,"date":"2019-05-22T15:55:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/attributional_style\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:55:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:55:38","slug":"attributional_style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/attributional_style\/","title":{"rendered":"Attributional style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cognitive style that may be depressive or not and which refers to the interpretation of events (i.e., in a task testing for attributional style, subjects are asked to give reasons why a hypothetical event might have occurred). &nbsp;Such causal attributions may be depressive and pessimistic [global, stable and internal (e.g., &#8220;the reason I failed my test is because I&#8217;m a stupid person&#8221;)] or non-depressive and optimistic [specific, unstable and external (e.g., &#8220;the reason I failed my test is because at the time I was taking the test, there was a lot of noise outside and I could not focus&#8221;)].<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"avoidance_learning\">Avoidance learning<\/a>, Learned helplessness<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cognitive style that may be depressive or not and which refers to the interpretation of events (i.e., in a task testing for attributional style, subjects are asked to give reasons why a hypothetical event might have occurred). &nbsp;Such causal attributions may be depressive and pessimistic [global, stable and internal (e.g., &#8220;the reason I failed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/attributional_style\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Attributional style&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}