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attribution
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Attribution \At`tri*bu"tion\, n. [L. attributio: cf. F. attribution.]
The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.
That which is ascribed or attributed.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "action of bestowing or assigning," from Middle French attribution (14c.), from Latin attributionem (nominative attributio) "an assignment, attribution," noun of action from past participle stem of attribuere (see attribute). Meaning "thing attributed" is recorded from 1580s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of attribute something. 2 An explicit or formal acknowledgment of ownership or authorship.
WordNet
n. assigning some quality or character to a person or thing; "the attribution of language to birds"; "the ascription to me of honors I had not earned" [syn: ascription]
assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso" [syn: ascription]
Wikipedia
Attribution may refer to:
- Attribution (copyright), concept in copyright law requiring an author to be credited
- Attribution (marketing), concept in marketing of assigning a value to a marketing activity based on desired outcome
- Attribution (psychology), concept in psychology whereby people attribute traits and causes to things they observe
- Performance attribution, technique in quantitative finance for explaining the active performance of a portfolio
- The attribution of information to its Source (journalism)
In social psychology, attribution is the process by which individuals explain the causes of behavior and events. Attribution theory is the study of models to explain those processes. Psychological research into attribution began with the work of Fritz Heider in the early part of the 20th century, subsequently developed by others such as Harold Kelley and Bernard Weiner.
Attribution in copyright law, is acknowledgement as credit to the copyright holder of a work. The most fundamental form of attribution is the statement of the copyright holder's identity, often in the form Copyright © [year] [copyright holder’s name]. The preservation of such a notice is invariably required until and unless a work has entered the public domain . Author attribution beyond such a notice is sometimes required by licenses, such as the GNU Free Documentation License and Creative Commons licenses.
Attribution is often considered as the most basic requirements made by a license, as it prevents others from claiming fraudulently to own the work and allows a copyright holder to accumulate a positive reputation that partially repays their losses. In cases when copyright holder is author himself it is regarded as a sign of decency and respect to acknowledge the creator by giving him/her credit for the work.
In marketing, Attribution is the process of identifying a set of user actions (“events” or "touchpoints") that contribute in some manner to a desired outcome, and then assigning a value to each of these events. Marketing attribution provides a level of understanding of what combination of events in what particular order influence individuals to engage in a desired behavior, typically referred to as a conversion.
Usage examples of "attribution".
Quality and Quantity, though attributive, are real entities, and on the basis of this reality distinguishable as Quality and Quantity respectively: then, on the same principle, since Motion, though an attribute has a reality prior to its attribution, it is incumbent upon us to discover the intrinsic nature of this reality.
The Ideas must have something of good, whether as a common property or as a distinct attribution or as held in some distinct measure.
If we are agreed that Quality and Quantity, though attributive, are real entities, and on the basis of this reality distinguishable as Quality and Quantity respectively: then, on the same principle, since Motion, though an attribute has a reality prior to its attribution, it is incumbent upon us to discover the intrinsic nature of this reality.
What, then, is that entity, called Motion, which, though attributive, has an independent reality, which makes its attribution possible--the entity corresponding to Quality, Quantity and Substance?
But such attribution is uncertain because skeletal remains are usually absent at tool sites.
The initial attribution of a Pliocene age to the discoveries of 1860 and 1880 appears justified.
As in the case of the OH 8 foot, subsequent studies showed the OH 7 hand to be very apelike, calling into question either its attribution to Homo habilis or the generally accepted humanlike picture of Homo habilis, which the original interpretation of the OH 7 hand helped create.
I hardly needed to check the attribution: Herri met de Bles, an itinerant early-sixteenth-century painter so obscure as to be almost apocryphal.
Licensor and indicated in the title of this License: Attribution, Noncommercial, ShareAlike.
It seems that it is the attribution of erotic qualities to a nonsexual object, and the subsequent act of masturbation with that object, that constitutes the charge of fetishism.
Darwin gives a series of the most wonderful and minute contrivances, by which the visits of insects are utilised for the fertilisation of orchids - structures so wonderful that nothing could well be more so, except the attribution of their origin to minute, fortuitous, and indefinite variations.
Attribution theory states that achievers have learned that they are able to succeed, that hard work increases the chances of success, that learning about themselves facilitates success, and that succeeding is enjoyable and worthwhile.
So but also know that causal attribution, like irony, is death, speaking-on-Commitments-wise.
As she's telling what she sees as etiological truth, even though the monologue seems sincere and unaffected and at least a B+ on the overall AA-story lucidity-scale, faces in the hall are averted and heads clutched and postures uneasily shifted in empathetic distress at the look-what-happened-to-poor-me invitation implicit in the tale, the talk's tone of self-pity itself less offensive (even though plenty of these White Flaggers, Gately knows, had personal childhoods that made this girl's look like a day at Six Flags Over the Poconos) than the subcurrent of explanation, an appeal to exterior Cause that can slide, in the addictive mind, so insidiously into Excuse that any causal attribution is in Boston AA feared, shunned, punished by empathic distress.
For every Circle has its natural symbolism, and even if no use is to be made of these facts, one must be careful not to let anything be inharmonious with the natural attributions.