Yevhen is standing in line at school. When he isn't looking, another boy steps on his toe. Yevhen says to himself: "He must have stepped on my toe because it's so crowded in here and somebody else pushed this guy; it was probably an accident." Yevhen is making a __________ attribution.

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Yevhen is making a situational attribution by attributing the other boy's behavior to the crowded environment and the possibility that someone else pushed him, rather than assuming the behavior was a result of the boy's personality or disposition (dispositional attribution).

Yevhen Is Standing in Line at School