social

You mistake neutral interactions for deliberate slights.

The term 'hostile attribution bias' was coined by Nasby, Hayden, and DePaulo in 1980.

Kenneth Dodge was a major contributor to the social information processing framework in which this bias is studied, but he did not coin the term.

Your suspicion is often a reflection of your own state, not their intent.

Where this comes from

Study: Kenneth Dodge, 1980
What the check found: The definition of the bias is accurate, but the source attribution is incorrect. Nasby, Hayden, and DePaulo coined the term in 1980, not Kenneth Dodge.
Confidence: Solid, with limits

One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.