PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: List Of Countries By Intentional Homicide Rate, Observer-Expectancy Effect, Reciprocal Altruism
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We tend to give causal explanations for people"s behavior. We tend to rely on dispositional ones. Tendency to overestimate dispositional influences and underestimate situational influences on someone else"s behavior. We make this error even when we are given the correct facts. We assume someone is a jerk just because, instead of looking at their situation. You blame the situation instead of yourself. If i succeed it"s because of me. Maybe, but also associated with negative emotion more generally (ex. When it"s hot out, when they"re in pain) Men are more likely to be aggressive than women. Usually higher in men than in women. People are aggressive because they are frustrated. Levels of aggression can change over time. Sweden went from being violent to nonviolent over 300 years (and it wasn"t due to genes!) Murder rates are far higher in some countries than in others. In the u. s. , physical violence is much more prevalent in the south than in the north.
