Cite this article as: Praveen Shrestha, "Weiner Attribution Theory," in Psychestudy, November 17, 2017, https://www.psychestudy.com/social/weiner-attribution-theory. Attribution theory was first developed by Fritz Heider in 1958. But, it was not able to cover every aspect and various different attribution theories were developed. Bernard Weiner, of the University of California at Los Angeles, developed what is now one of the popular theories of attribution. Weiner’s model of attribution is ...