PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fundamental Attribution Error, Collectivism, Ann Coulter
8 Feb 2017
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How easy or difficult a particular task is. Culture tends to use different explanations for success and failure. In individualistic cultures, people tend to focus on the individual as determining the cause of behavior. People attribute success to ability and failure to external factors. In collectivistic cultures people tend to give greater emphasis to external causes of individual behavior. People attribute success to help form others and failure to the lack of effort. Participants: american and asian indians of varying ages. They had to describe the cause of actions they had observed in their lives. Americans tend to engage in more internal attribution compared to indians. Indians, by the time they"re adult, they engage in more external attribution compared to adults. Both american and japanese college students recalled details about the focal fish to a nearly equal extent. Japanese students, however, reported more details about the supporting cast in the background background.
