Looked at from the standpoint of social psychology, ascribing the existence or absence and the quality of human relationships to an external fac tor--fate, with its connotations of predetermination--is nothing other than a process of attribution, in which responsibility for all meetings and partings between people is laid at fate's door.
從社會心理學的角度而言，將人際關係的有無或好壞，歸之於帶有命定意味的外在因素﹘﹘緣，是一種貨真價實的「歸因」歷程，即是將所有人際間的聚散離合歸結到緣。