PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Fundamental Attribution Error, Social Web, Attribution Bias
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Scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another. Examines the influence of social processes on the way people think, feel, and behave. Major lesson: far more than you realize, people"s actions are produced and constrained by the social web, and not by the mythical true self . Predictions : the embarrassing questions should elicit: Greater social referencing: more looking around and hushed talking. The situation sometimes matters more than you think. Dont judge a person until you have walked a mile in his/hers shoes. We make dispositional attributions for others, but situational attributions for ourselves. So give people the same benefit of the doubt that you give yourself. Our successes are due to our dispositions; our failures are due to our situations. This may be healthy, in moderation, at least in western cultures. We don"t recognize power of situation on others. We do recognize power of situation on self, but mostly for failures.
