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Fundamental Attribution Error
- tendency to attribute causes of other
people's behaviour to dispositional factors
- bias not error - judgement
often accurate
- may reflect usefulness of dispositional
attributions when predicting behaviour
on other occasions / situations
- may reflect usefulness of dispositional
attributions when predicting behaviour
on other occasions / situations
- overgeneralisation - we do acknowledge
situational causes for others behaviour
- bias not error - judgement
often accurate
- actor / observer effect: tend to
make situational attributions
about our own behaviour
- Storms showed people observing their own
behaviour on video tended to make
dispositional attributions - suggesting a
perceptual explanation for FAE
- change in perceptual perspective
led to change in causal attribution
- change in perceptual perspective
led to change in causal attribution
- people take into account information with
perceptual salience: FAE explained by
situation having more salience when
attributing cause of own behaviour
- American adults show FAE - Indian Hindus do not:
suggesting culture influences perceptual salience
- may be explained by emphasis on
individual in US and on group in less
individualist cultures - leading to a focus
on causes outside the individual
- may be explained by emphasis on
individual in US and on group in less
individualist cultures - leading to a focus
on causes outside the individual
- important in identifying one of the
biases that influence interpretation
of the causes of behaviour
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