L33 Psych 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Dispositional Attribution, Counterfactual Thinking
19 Mar 2019
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You sucked and they wanted to get you out of the room or you were good and clearly the person for the job: attributions=the cognitive act of explaining why something occurred. Confidence of reason why decreases because there are multiple explanations: augmentation=confidence in any given causal explanation should (in theory) be. Increased if the other potential causes would produce a different outcome: e. g. a badly injured guy isn"t happy because he just got injured, so he must be happy because he"s an optimistic guy (disposition) If a can"t explain something then it"s probably b: when the situation can"t explain the behavior you tend to be confident in the dispositional attribution. If a person"s behavior goes against the grain, then you can safely assume it"s the person"s disposition that"s causing the odd behavior: this is what people ought to do, in theory. In the cases of near misses, that tends to amplify the emotion you would have had.
