PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Psy, Chocolate Cake
4 Oct 2020
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We tend to see other people"s behaviour as reflecting stable, internal characteristics. Perceivers are willing to draw inferences about personality traits based on very little evidence. People tend to see you in one particular situation: your siblings, teachers, co-workers, etc. The correspondence bias does not occur for self-attributions. To explain their own behaviour, people tend to focus on external factors. Actor-observer difference: actors tend to make external attributions for their own behaviour, whereas observers tend to make internal attributions for the same actions. Actor: we have a lot of knowledge about our own behaviour in the past. Knowing these variations across time and settings make clear to us that we are not consistent or stable as implied by a trait attribution. We want to view ourselves as flexible- we want to believe that we can respond appropriately to different situational contexts.
