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Attributing causality: To the person or the situation
1. Attribution theory is how people explain others' behavior.
2. People infer other people's intentions and dispositions from their actions.
3. Most attributions are commonsense that explains behavior logically.
4. Information integration contributes to the attributions people make about other people.
The fundamental attribution error is when the impact of the situation is underestimated or discounted when making an assumption about a perception.
Why is the attribution error made? Perspective differs between observing and acting.
1. When observing, the other person is the center of attention and the situation disappears.
When acting, the environment commands the
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