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defensive attribution  

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  • Definition Defensive attributions are explanations of behaviors that serve to defend an individual's preferred beliefs about self, others, and the world. Background Sigmund Freud, at the beginning of the 20th century, first popularized the idea that people's desires can bias their explanations of events. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Psychology; Defensive Attribution]

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