MGT 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 92: Fundamental Attribution Error
7 Dec 2020
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Person perceptions are perceptions formed by people about each other. A lot of the perceptions we form of others come from first impressions and small cues with little evidence to support it. This is common, but troubling, when we infer about the morality of someone else. We form our strongest impressions based on our perceptions about another person"s moral character, but our first information about this can at times, be sketchy and unfounded. Nonliving objects are subject to the laws of nature, but unlike people, they don"t have any beliefs, motives, or intentions. When we observe someone, we try to explain their behavior. The way we perceive and judge a person"s actions are influenced by our assumptions made about the state of mind of the person. Attribution theory explains how we judge people differently depending on the meaning we attribute to a certain behavior.
