PSYC 150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Dispositional Attribution, Fundamental Attribution Error, Physical Attractiveness
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Social psychology: the study of the way in which the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others influences the thoughts, feelings, and behaviour of individuals. Primary effect: the likelihood that an overall impression or judgment of another will be influenced more by the first information received about that person than by information that comes later. Attributions: inferences about the cause of our own or another"s behaviour. Situational attribution: attribution of a behaviour to some external cause or factor operating in the situation; an external attribution. Dispositional attribution: attribution of one"s own or another"s behaviour to some internal cause such as a personal trait, motive, or attitude; an internal attribution. Actor-observer bias: the tendency of observers to make dispositional attributions for the behaviours of others but situational attributions for their own behaviours. Fundamental attribution error: the tendency to overemphasize internal factors and underemphasize situational ones when explaining other people"s behaviour.
