PSYC 473 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Inductive Reasoning, Covariance, Counterfactual Conditional

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In the american legal system, it is believed that the punishment should suit the crime and should reflect the inferred intentions of the criminal: ex) hate crimes are punished more severely than non-hate crimes. In our day-to-day lives, we observe others" actions and the consequences of these actions. Person as cause: the force emanating from the person that gives rise to behavior is called the effective, the disposition of the person is assumed to be especially powerful in determining how force of the person. 1 perceivers ascribe the cause for why a behavior was performed. Ex) when shown a film of geographic shapes in motion, participants tended to display anthropomorphism and attribute the behavior to disposition: there is a tendency to attribute an observed behavior to person-based causes. 1) behavior engulfs the field, drawing attention to the person and becoming more salient than the context in which it appears.

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