ECO105Y1 Lecture Notes - Fundamental Attribution Error, Social Cognition, Dispositional Attribution
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What is social cognition: depends on who you ask . Defined as a particular sub-topic of psychology, just like stereotype, prejudice attitude. Or a way of understanding different perspective, topics in social psychology. We are more likely to view others" behavior as caused by their personal characteristics and preferences, whereas we prefer situational explanations for our own behavior. When we are making the judgement upon other behavior, we tend to overly rely on their disposition, internal attribution and ignore the situational distribution. Cross country finding: less prominent in collectivistic society, a society where focus on a holistic perspective, not individual, focus on the big picture, like india, china, does not necessary replicate, We tend to use situational explanation for behavior if we did something wrong. But if we did something good, we tend to use internal attribution to explain it. Ross, amabile, & steinmetz (1977): the quiz show.
