Fundamental Attribution Error Flashcards
What are the three types of attribution? What do they mean?
Causal: the process whereby we arrive at conclusions and explanations of our own as well as other people’s behaviour.
Internal: something within the person we observe, their personality, …
External: it is cause by something outside the person we observe, their situation, …
What are the three types of attributional biases? What do they mean?
Correspondence Bias - Individuals tend to overestimate the personal causes of behaviour and underestimate the situational ones.
Self-serving Bias - Individuals tend to attribute their successes to internal factors while attributing failures to external factors .
Actor-Observer Bias - Individuals tend to attribute their own behaviours to external factors while attributing others’ to internal factors.
What are Attributional biases?
People attach more weight to some causes than others when drawing causal conclusions.
What is the the Fundamental Attribution Error?
People tend to overstate personality reasons and downplay situational factors when explaining others’ behaviour.
Is the the Fundamental Attribution Error universal across cultures?
No, the Fundamental Attribution Bias is not universal across cultures. While North American and Western European cultures emphasize individuality and are more susceptible to the bias, Asian, African, and Latin American cultures, which emphasize collectivism, are less likely to exhibit the bias.
What are the consequences of falling under FAE?
Causal Judgment, Social Inference, Discrimination and Prejudice, Prediction of Outcome Behavior.
