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In particular, attributing poor performance to a lack of ability depresses motivation more than does the belief that lack of effort is to blame.

Reasonable people may disagree about whom to blame.

No single online activity is to blame for excessive use, he said.

We're not trying to assign blame or criticize anyone or call anyone consciously sexist.

The company blamed much of the poor performance in November and December on unseasonably warm weather.

Arum and Roksa placed the blame for students' lack of learning on a watered-down college curriculum and lowered undergraduate work standards.

Some critics blame affirmative action – students admitted with lower test scores and grades from shaky high schools often struggle at elite schools.

And one of the most popular explanations, among some experts and the popular media, is that excessive "screen time,, is to blame.

Even though scientists play a part in transmitting information to journalists and ultimately the public, too often the blame for ineffective communication is placed on the side of the journalists.

The technologies themselves, and their makers, are the easiest suspects to blame for our diminishing attention spans.

It's easy to blame technology for being so distracting, but distraction is nothing new.

You can hardly blame people for worrying though.

Lots of people find it hard to get up in the morning and put the blame on the alarm clock.

Some social app companies were to blame because they didn't adequately check their users' registration.

We tend to blame TV, he says, for problems it doesn't really cause, overlooking our own roles in shaping children's minds.

We went 10-1 and I was named most valuable player, but I often had crazy dreams in which I was to blame for Miller's accident.

Bankers have been blaming themselves for their troubles in public.

The sobering aspect of Allen‘s book is that we have no one else to blame for our present condition except ourselves.

When we are deprived of green, of plants, of trees, most of us give into a demoralization of spirit which we usually blame on some psychological conditions, until one day we find ourselves in garden and feel the expression vanish as if by magic.

Some blame for the current controversy belongs to astronomers.

Denham chose to concentrate the blame on the NHS trust, since under existing law it.

"They blame it on the manufacturing recession," says birgit Klohs, chief executive of The right Place, a business development agency for western michigan.

To some extent the housing sector must shoulder the blame.