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Attractiveness is defined as having qualities that appeal to an audience.

Attractor refers to a fractal structure with noninteger dimensionality whose shape is shown in phase space and to which trajectories are attracted.

Deutsch: Attribut / Español: Atributo / Português: Atributo / Français: Attribut / Italiano: Attributo /

Attribute is a characteristic of a person or a thing.

Attribution refers to an inference about the cause of our own or another’s behaviour.

Attribution cube refers to an Attribution theory that uses three (3) types of information: consensus, consistency, and distinctiveness

Attribution model refers to the idea that we attribute our lack of control or failure to some cause.

Attribution retraining refers to the therapeutic intervention in which helpless children are persuaded to attribute failures to their lack of effort rather than a lack of ability.

The Attribution theory describes the processes of explaining events and the behavioral and emotional consequences of those explanations.