PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Virginity, Dispositio, Ecliptica
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Cultures tend to use different explanations for success and failure. If you interpret what someone said the same way they intended to then it is isomorphic attribution. If you interpret what someone said differently than how they intended, then it is not isomorphic attribution: the intention is not perceived the same way by the listener. In individualistic cultures people tend to focus on the individual as determining the causes of behaviour: people attribute success to ability and failure to external factors. In collectivistic cultures people tend to give greater emphasis to external causes of individual behaviour: people attribute success to help from others and failure to the lack of effort, e. g. Is it possible that the fundamental attribution error is a uniquely western phenomenon: tends to be more prevalent in western individualistic societies. Indians tend to make less internal attributions from age 8 to adulthood when compared to.