PSYC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fundamental Attribution Error, Cognitive Dissonance, Social Comparison Theory
18 May 2020
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Correspondence bias (fundamental attribution error, fae): tendency to infer that people"s behavior corresponds to their disposition (personality, internal) Game show study (ross, amabile & steinmetz, 1977): Participants randomly assigned to 1 of 3 roles (questioner, contestant, spectator). Questioners job is to come up w 10 q"s on trivia knowledge. Results: spectators ignored situational advantage given to questioner. Spectators rated questioners more intelligent attributed situation to internal causes. Failing to see situation constraints but regard it as the intellect of the contestant. Tendency to see other ppl"s behavior as dispositionally caused, but focusing more on the role of situational factors when explaining one"s own behavior. Less likely to have fae on our behavior than the behavior of others. More likely to attribute your behavior depending on the situation. Others behaviors are not dependent on the situation bc you don"t see them in situations as often.
