PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fundamental Attribution Error, Representativeness Heuristic, Rush Hour
10 Feb 2016
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Perhaps he"s returning the favour to jill who bought him a drink earlier, or maybe he is doing a favour for a friend who forgot her wallet, or he may even be trying to make a new friend. It is dif cult to accurately attribute intentions to observed actions. Perhaps he lost a bet, was in an odd mood, or never thought for the life of him that they would actually end up in a module. The incident was so upsetting that she decided to stay over at a friend"s place. Social psychologists have developed several theories to explain how you decide to attribute the behaviour: according to correspondent inference theory, you actively analyze a person"s behaviour to make inferences based on three variables, degree of choice, expectation. To understand why a person is behaving in a particular way, it helps to know if he.
