Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
misattribution
1865, from mis- (1) + attribution.
Wiktionary
misattribution
n. 1 The act or process of misattribute. 2 An incorrect attribution.
Wikipedia
Misattribution
Misattribution may refer to:
- Misattribution of arousal
- Misattribution of memory
- The misattribution theory of humor
Usage examples of "misattribution".
Schacter catalogs them as transience, persistence, absentmindedness, blocking, bias, misattribution, and suggestibility.
But the main topic of this article is memory distortion, which Schacter considers in his last three categories: bias, misattribution, and suggestibility.
For the rest, it is virtually impossible to determine precisely which are playful inventions, mistakes, or intentional misattributions by Stendhal.
In three paragraphs Taft identified more factual errors, misattributions, and oversights than two dozen other scholars had found in their own book reviews.