Psychology 3723F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fundamental Attribution Error, Dispositional Attribution, Attitude Change
9 Mar 2020
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Be able to articulate research in support or against different models, where relevant. Persuasion the act of trying to change other people"s attitudes. Implies we are able to infer what people"s attitudes are: we are not able to read people"s minds, but we can observe what they do. Jones, davis, and green 1961: dv: job type submariner, astronaut. I always like to know how other people think i should behave . I like to feel free to do what i wanted to do . Fundamental attribution error: andy luttrell: what is the fundamental attribution error, dispositional attribution = internal. Situational = external: we overwhelmingly assume people"s behavior reflects something about them. We use dispositional attributions even when situational is more appropriate. 39% in 2014: disagreement is increasing, they view e/o as really bad and a threat to the nation = polarization.
