PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Fundamental Attribution Error, Cognitive Dissonance, Ingroups And Outgroups

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

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Psy1102 - lecture chapter 16 - social psychology. Social psychology: scienti c study of how the presence of others (real or imagined) is going to in uence and affect our thinking, feeling or behavior. This eld grew in popularity after 1930s (hitler: attributions. De nitions: process by which we infer the causes of behavior. Dispositional (personality traits/ internal characteristics to explain behavior) Fundamental attribution error: our tendency when we explain behaviors of others to put a strong emphasis on dispositional factors and disregard situational factors. So powerful that we all make this error. Ex. study with the assistant that is warm and friendly or cold and aloof. When we explain our own behaviors we use situational factors. When we explain behaviors of people we know well. When we take a moment to and allow compassion toward the other person. How we explain behavior determines how you think, feel, and act.