Fritz Heider (1896-1988) was a German social psychologist, responsible for developing the so-called P-O-X theory and the attribution theory in 1958. 1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Attribution theory is a field of social psychology, which was born out of the theoritical models of Fritz Heider, Harold Kelley, Edward E. Jones, and Lee Ross. ...
FritzHeider, the Austrian-born father of attribution theory, said that we all face the same task Jean confronted-trying to figure out personality of people from their behavior behavior.
Heider, who became a psychologist and taught at the University of Kansas, said that attribution is the process of drawing inferences.
Heider’s ideas may not be perfect, but as the theory itself suggests, few objects of our judgment are as good or as bad as we want to give them credit for being.
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