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Thursday, December 10, 2020

Fundamental Attribution Error in Psychology

 

In psychology, the Fundamental Attribution Error is attributing the behavior of a group of people to personality traits or characteristics of the people rather than to an external cause such as a situation.

Other terms include: correspondence bias and over-attribution effect

For example, considering slaves to be ignorant or dependent instead of recognizing the system of slavery used the force of law and punishment to withhold education and freedom to live as they wished.

Reference

Jones, E. E., & Harris, V. A. (1967). The attribution of attitudes. Journal of experimental social psychology, 3(1), 1-24.