Blame Attribution

Dimension 838 of 1,100 · Health Lens

Excitement Index

0.0498

Blame Attribution measures the extent to which an expression assigns fault or responsibility for negative events, outcomes, or distress to oneself or to other people. It encompasses self-blame, blaming others, and generalized fault-finding in response to problems or stressful experiences.

evidence final name · Blame Fault

Bands

Minimal Blame Attribution

Expressions activating this band contain little or no clear assignment of fault, or only incidental references to problems, self-evaluation, or interpersonal difficulty without a distinct blaming frame.

Low Blame Attribution

Expressions activating this band show emerging fault-focused interpretation, such as negative beliefs about oneself or distress reactions that begin to frame events in terms of personal badness, failure, or responsibility.

Moderate Blame Attribution

Expressions activating this band explicitly assign responsibility for something going wrong, whether to oneself, another person, or people in general. Blame is stated directly as a way of explaining mistakes, poor outcomes, or life problems.

High Blame Attribution

Expressions activating this band center on recurrent, personalized blame, especially self-blame for problems and bad outcomes. Fault is framed as a stable and salient explanation for what has gone wrong.

Severe Blame Attribution

Expressions activating this band depict pervasive and emotionally charged blaming of oneself or others in connection with stressful experiences and their consequences. Fault attribution is direct, prominent, and broadly applied to what happened and what followed.

Evidence summary

Candidate names

Blame Fault1.00

Blamed0.50

Bad0.50

Sentence counts by range

B-6..B-2363,064

B-1..B54,583,519

B6..B1232,520

B13..B182,415

B19..B25325

Dataset representation

01__health_reviews__druglib__benefits_effectiveness45

03__fact_checking__liar__truth_ordinal58

05__whole_disney_dataset__rating89

06__text_reviews__acl_imdb__binary_sentiment103

07__emotion_labels__goemotions_reddit__multilabel93

08__dialogue_emotion__empathetic_dialogues__context81

10__social_media_sentiment__sentiment140__binary83

11__consumer_complaints__response_explanation_vs_relief101

Anchor definitions

Minimal Blame Fault

Minimal Blame Fault: Content characterized by stuck, simply, waste, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect blame fault at this level.

Emerging Blame Fault

Emerging Blame Fault: Content characterized by blonde, wrong, bad, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect blame fault at this level.

Elevated Blame Fault

Elevated Blame Fault: Content characterized by else, decided, doing, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect blame fault at this level.

Severe Blame Fault

Severe Blame Fault: Content characterized by blame, his, nothing, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect blame fault at this level.