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Students of motivation are not the only ones who seek reasons for an action and ponder the causes of action outcomes. We all do, everyday. Everyone is a motivation psychologist; we all try to be aware of what is going on around us, especially if it affects us. We take note of others’ behaviors, we “perceive” or infer what they intend to do, what they “are driving at,” what they “are up to.” We do all of this without needing to be puzzled by the conspicuous behaviors listed in Chapter 1.
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Heckhausen, H. (1991). Attribution Theory. In: Motivation and Action. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75961-1_13
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