SOCIOL 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fundamental Attribution Error, Dispositional Attribution, Lastminute.Com
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As we can see from the examples in the text, we can analyze the fact that attribution plays a big part in social interaction and personal perception. We can evaluate that the two examples of college students meeting their advisors is a scene where situations and dispositions can be altered with some simple explanation. Example one showed negative situational attribution, dispositional attribution and self-schema. But the similarity about both examples where the fact that they both displayed fundamental attribution errors where there is over-attribution to dispositional factors and the under-attribution to situational factors. Negative situational attribution was demonstrated when jessica made an appointment with dr. smith but since she was running late, she was only able to do last-minute checkups. As well as jessica displayed negative dispositional attribution by thinking dr. smith cared too little for her students to allow enough time to meet every student for the time they needed .
