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kelley's covariation model  

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  • Definition Harold Kelley's covariation principle is a central model within attribution theory, an area of social psychology that is concerned with the scientific analysis of the psychology of everyday people. Attribution theory was originally introduced by Fritz Heider in 1958 and assumes that we all want to understand and explain events. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Psychology; Kelley's Covariation Model]

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