PSY 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fritz Heider, Fundamental Attribution Error
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Causal attribution: answering the why question: according to fritz heider, the father of attribution theory we can make: Internal attribution: low in consensus, low in distinctiveness, high in consistency. External attribution: high in consensus, high in distinctiveness, high in consistency. Particular to situation: high in consensus high in distinctiveness, low in consistency. o. The correspondence bias is the tendency to infer that behaviour is internally attributed. So pervasive that is has been called the fundamental attribution error, consisting of the overestimation of internal, dispositional factors in behaviour and underestimation of the situational factors. Because our attention is not on the non visible situation around the action, we attribute it to the person which we can see. We can make an internal attribution, inferring that the behavior is the result of something in that person such as their attitude personality or character.
