Talk:Defensive attribution hypothesis

Hi, feel free to help me with this page .... my first. I had been preparing it on my userpage but couldn't figure out how to move it to his page ... so I copied it.

Dr Ashton (talk) 17:38, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Uhhh...
While doing a cleanup on this article's convoluted language, I noticed that there seems to be some confusion about who is attributing what to whom and whether only situations involving more than one person are under discussion (or not). Of course, the article had Elaine Hatfield confused with Elaine Walster, so I can see why the finer points are unclear.

Anyway, I hope my attempts to improve the language hasn't made the content even muddier.WQUlrich (talk) 23:14, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Pistorius trial...
...might be a point in case. We would find his version of events easier to believe if he'd only shot his girlfriend in the foot. This leads on to a confounding effect: our tendency to be more forgiving when the outcome is less severe might also make us more indulgent as regards the tale told by the wrong-doer - so malice tends to pass as mere accident when little harm was done. There is a connection with child-rearing here: the effect lulls parents into effectively causing their evil sprog to apprehend he can get away with anything.137.205.183.114 (talk) 08:18, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Rollback and cleanup (June 2016)
I took the liberty of doing some work on the page, the lead still needs a rewrite but at least now the page doesn't contradict itself. Ihaveacatonmydesk (talk) 00:08, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Editing for clarity (October 2019)
I agree that the article doesn't read clearly, it is confusing about who is attributing what to whom and if the observer themselves are involved in the situation (they're not). I've attempted to edit the introduction in a way that makes it clear that the observer attributes blame to people who are dissimilar to them (which is the idea I get from the later sections of the article). — Preceding unsigned comment added by P.kushwaha97 (talk • contribs) 07:31, 28 October 2019 (UTC)