PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fundamental Attribution Error, Good Hair Day, High High
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Inference that behavior is because of something about the person, such as his attitude, character, or personality: external attribution. If consensus is low then other people aren"t behaving the same way: distinctiveness information, the extent to which one particular person behaves differently across various situations. If the person often behaves like this is similar situations, the distinctiveness is low. Fundamental attribution error: also known as the correspondence bias, tendency to infer that people"s behavior matches their internal disposition (personality, attitude, called the fundamental attribution error because we overestimate internal and underestimate external, not always an error though. Sometimes behavior is disposition (internally) caused - so some prefer the term. See it especially in western cultures but also in eastern: role of perceptual salience, people are often the focus, not the situation, we pay attention to them more than the situation. If you"re facing actor a, you attribute it more to a then b.
