PS102 Lecture Notes - Fritz Heider, Philip Zimbardo, Fundamental Attribution Error
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Study to the extent to which you attribute to personal behaviors or to external contextual factors. Fundamental attribution error is ignoring the context in which the behaviors occur. Important for social psychology: explains why people explain things the way they do. If circumstances create bad behavior than people are vulnerable to do those things (follow) When we blame the victim is suggests a just world. Tend to interrogate the victim (it is easier to blame them especially when you were not there for the situation) They were randomly assigned roles: prisoners and guard. Made a mock prison out of a stanford building. People were arrested at their home by real prisoners. Prisoners were being abused, deprived of sleep, food was manipulated. Given their role, they played the role they were given (in this case it became unsafe, and had to be abandoned)
