MGT262H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fundamental Attribution Error
Document Summary
Dispositional attributions - some personality or intellectual characteristic unique to the person is responsible for the behaviour - Situational attributions - the external situation or environment in which the target person exists was responsible for the behaviour - bad weather, good luck, proper tools, or poor advice. Fundamental attribution error tendency to overemphasize dispositional explanations for behaviour at expense of situational explanations. Fail to realize that observed behaviour is distinctive to a particular situation. One behaviour will give us a judgment for their entire personality, especially public figures. Actor-observer effect propensity for actors and observers to view the causes of the actor"s behaviour differently. Actors are prone to attribute much of their own behaviour to situational factors instead of dispositions.
