CAS PS 261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dispositional Attribution, Attribution Bias, Intelligence Quotient

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 261
• Professor: Mercurio

Document Summary

Two-step model of attribution: tendency is to make a dispositional or internal attribution (this is spontaneous). 2. if the cognitive resources are available, you may make a correction or an adjustment to the initial dispositional/internal attribution. Only if you have the ability and the time/energy. In this way, we may decide that it is more of a situational attribution, not about the individual. Especially in the individualistic society we tend to automatically make internal attributions. We make spontaneous judgments and then we do not have more time to think about it. If we had more time, we would correct the initial internal attribution that we made. Culture is the third factor in playing a role in attribution biases that we make. People from collectivist cultures do not make as many spontaneous trait in uences. The initial reaction is not to go to the individual they take the social context and the environment into account.