PSYC 2606 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fundamental Attribution Error, Attribution Bias, Confirmation Bias
Document Summary
Fundamental attribution error (fae) -tendency to overestimate dispositional factors and ignore situational factors. People act a certain way because of who they are, ignoring how the situation is. Actor-observer difference- tendency to attribute our behavior to situational causes and the behavior of others to dispositional causes: laughing at someone who is falling but then feeling bad when it happens to you. Self-serving attribution bias- tendency to take credit for successes but to but to blame others (or situation) for our failures. False consensus effect: tendency to overestimate commonality of one"s opinions, beliefs, attributions, and behavior, think that their behavior is typical. Confirmation bias- tendency to search for information that confirms our beliefs and attributions.
