PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fundamental Attribution Error, Zoophilia, Virginity

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310
• Professor: Saba Safdar

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4. luck: cultures tend to use different explanations for success and failure. Masuda & nisbett"s study (2001: results, both american and japanese college students recalled details about the focal fish to a nearly equal extent, japanese students, however, reported more details about the supporting cast in the background. Bicultural identity: how bicultural individuals make attributions for human behaviour, (hong, morris, chui & benet-martinez, 2000) Study (2000: results, conclusion, those with bicultural identity made more situational attribution when. Chinese images were presented and less situational attribution when. American images were given: social perceptions are fluid and depend on which culture is brought to mind. Self-effacement attribution or modesty bias for success: yik, bond, & paulhus (1998, the tendency to make internal attribution for failure and external attribution. Participants were asked, who do you think had performed better on the test, you or the average student at your university? .