PSYCH 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Fundamental Attribution Error, Psych, Collectivism
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Step 1: we make an automatic internal attribution (e. g. , a spontaneous trait inference) We (sometimes) consider situational facts that may have played a role this can change the initial internal attribution into an external attribution. Correspondence bias: people"s tendency to infer that behaviour is caused by dispositional factors. Occurs when we engage in step 1 of the attribution process but not step 2. People are salient, the situation is not. People tend to believe that others" behaviour is caused by dispositional factors, but their own behaviour is caused by situational factors. Actors and observers have different information available to them. Actors have more consistency and distinctiveness information about themselves. Our successes and failures engender different attributions. Very low or no self-serving bias in some asian (collectivistic) cultures. The need to feel good about ourselves. High self-concept clarity occurs if our self-schemas are. Low self concept clarity (also called self-concept confusion) is essentially not having rm knowledge of who we are.
