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	The Poker Shrink, Vol 28 - The Fundamental Attribution Error \| Poker News
		He attributes his loss to an external factor—luck and perhaps to the donkey play of the 87o player.
		The Fundamental Attribution Error is a pretty straightforward concept, which has been supported in countless studies across all types of behaviors.
		The upside of understanding the Fundamental Attribution Error is that when you become clear about when it is your play and when it is your opponent's play because you have a lot more information about them.
	www.pokernews.com /news/2007/2/poker-shrink-vol-28-fundamental-attribution.htm (975 words)

	Cognition
		The first area in which systemic thinkers avoid well-documented reasoning errors is in avoiding underestimation or misattribution of relationships when constructing an understanding of a situation, an error that has come to be called the Fundamental Attribution Error.
		Jones and;Harris, 1967) have found that the Fundamental Attribution Error is so strong that people underestimate systemic forces in explaining the behavior of someone they are observing even when they know that the person they are observing is acting under conditions in which they are given no choice (Ross 1977).
		This was a case again of attributing the product of a relationship the attraction between to bodies to one of the constituents of that relationship, a case of dormitization.
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	Fundamental attribution error . Enpsychlopedia
		In attribution theory, the fundamental attribution error (also known as correspondence bias or overattribution effect and frequently confused with the actor-observer bias) is the tendency for people to over-emphasize dispositional, or personality-based, explanations for behaviors observed in others while under-emphasizing the role and power of situational influences on the same behavior.
		Ross argued in a popular paper that the fundamental attribution error forms the conceptual bedrock for the field of social psychology.
		Thus, even when subjects were aware that the speeches made were solely because of the flip of a coin, they committed the fundamental attribution error when it came to judging the motivation behind pro or anti-Castro attitudes of the speech makers.
	enpsychlopedia.org /psypsych/Fundamental_attribution_error (894 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Attribution
		As attribution bias that leads people to ascribe their own successes to internal personal factors, such as ability, and their failures to external situational causes, such as bad luck.
		The Guidoriccio fresco: a new attribution: Thomas de Wesselow argues that the celebrated fresco, traditionally known as Guidoriccio, in Siena's Palazzo Pubblico, is not by Simone Martini, and proposes an alternative candidate.
		Disorder attribution and clinical judgment in the assessment of adolescent antisocial behavior.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Attribution (822 words)

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		In attribution theory, the fundamental attribution error (sometimes referred to as the actor-observer bias) is the tendency for humans to over-emphasize dispositional, or personality-based, explanations for behaviors observed in others while under-emphasizing the role and power of situational influences on the same behavior.
		The fundamental attribution error is a conceptual bedrock for the field of social psychology.
		This is the fundamental problem that the mainstream religious face in the United States today: they have not defended their brand, and they have lost it to the outrage pimps of Republican Fundamentalism like James Dobson, Jerry Falwell, and (most recently in the public eye) William Donohue.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Fundamental_attribution_error.html (1532 words)

	SparkNotes: Social Psychology: Attribution
		The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to attribute other people’s behavior to internal factors such as personality traits, abilities, and feelings.
		The fundamental attribution error is also called the correspondence bias, because it is assumed that other people’s behavior corresponds to their personal attributes.
		That is, they tend to attribute their successes to situational factors rather than to personal attributes, and, when they fail, they blame themselves for not trying hard enough.
	www.sparknotes.com /psychology/psych101/socialpsychology/section3.rhtml (894 words)

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		In attribution theory, the fundamental attribution error (also known as correspondence bias or overattribution effect) is the tendency for people to over-emphasize dispositional, or personality-based, explanations for behaviors observed in others while under-emphasizing situational explanations.
		Ross argued in a popular paper that the fundamental attribution error forms the conceptual bedrock for the field of social psychology.
		So, attributions for others' behavior are more likely to focus on the person we see, not the situational forces acting upon that person that we may not be aware of.
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	Hva er egentlig forskjellen på the fundimental attrubution error og correspondence bias
		The differences is that the fundamental attribution error deals with judgments of causality and correspondence bias deals with inferred traits.
		In principle, the fundamental attribution error is one step beyond correspondence bias – it isn’t sufficient to merely believe that the student is smart, you also have to believe that the smartness was the cause of the student’s exam performance.
		The argument is that we tend to attribute causality to the things we are attending to.
	www.sv.uit.no /seksjon/psyk/sos_qst.htm (2456 words)

	Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science
		The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to attribute one's own actions to the situation, while attributing others' actions to their personality.
		The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to attribute one's own actions to the situation, while attributing others' actions to their personality (8).
		The purpose of the current study was to determine whether the fundamental attribution error occurs in cheating.
	digital.library.okstate.edu /OAS/oas_htm_files/v80/p91_97nf.html (1827 words)

	Glossary: Fundamental Attribution Error
		However, people have a strong tendency to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional rather than situational factors, that is, to character and especially character flaws rather than the system in which these people are acting.
		The attribution of behavior to individuals and special circumstances rather than system structure diverts our attention from the high leverage points where redesigning the system or governing policy can have significant, sustained, beneficial effects on performance.
		The author uses the fundamental attribution error to make the even more telling point that people tend to have “flawed cognitive maps” or mental models of complex system problems, and so they find it difficult to solve such problems.
	www.thwink.org /sustain/glossary/FundamentalAttributionError.htm (615 words)

	attribution-figures
		Attribution "theory" is actually not a single theory or the work of one person, but rather it is a collection of many social psychological theories that describe how people explain the causes of behavior.
		Attribution theory is useful in helping us to understand why people behave the way they do as well as how to change human behavior.
		In the first case, we are attributing behavior to internal causes and in the second case, we are attributing behavior to external causes.
	pubpages.unh.edu /~ckb/attribution-figures.html (667 words)

	Fundamental Attribution Error An Ongoing Personal Struggle
		The first is the most common and a cause of fundamental attribution error.
		This is yet another example of Fundamental attribution error: The person typically doesn’t allow the option of the person being a bit insecure because of the uncommon situation they’ve been put in which is typically the case.
		The key is to understand the overall situation and understand that there will be a bit of apprehension and concern by both parties and to simply not allow a statement or action to cause a detrimental response that becomes the root cause or beginning of a fundamental attribution error.
	www.useless-knowledge.com /articles/apr/91.html (524 words)

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		The Fundamental Attribution Error is the tendency to attribute one's own actions as due to the situation, while attributing other's actions as due to their personality.
		The Fundamental Attribution Error is the tendency to attribute one's own actions as due to the situation one finds himself in, while attributing other's actions as due to their personality (Heider, 1958).
		It was hypothesized the Fundamental Attribution Error would occur in cheating situations: people would attribute cheating of Others to their Personality and attribute their own cheating (Self) as due to the Situational factors.
	oas.ucok.edu /OJAS/00/Papers/Bogle2.htm (1882 words)

	UnderstandingPrejudice.org: The Psychology of Prejudice
		In contrast, if her homelessness is attributed to situational factors such as job layoffs or domestic partner violence, prejudice toward single mothers may not come into play or may even be reduced.
		The difficulty with such attributions is that the world is not always just; people often find themselves in unfair circumstances, whether by birth, happenstance, or other factors beyond their control.
		This attributional double standard makes it virtually impossible for outgroup members to break free of prejudice against them, because their positive actions are explained away while their failures and shortcomings are used against them.
	www.understandingprejudice.org /apa/english/page9.htm (632 words)

	Exploring Unintentional Racism: The Case of Tim Hanks - Case Teaching Notes - Case Study Collection - National Center ...
		It was explained that the outcome of the attribution process is that one may conclude that a given behavior is either indicative of the actor’s disposition (i.e., personality, attitudes, etc.) or the situation in which the behavior was performed (Jones and Davis, 1965; Kelley, 1967).
		The FAE was then introduced as the natural tendency to unknowingly overestimate the extent to which another person’s behavior is indicative of his or her disposition and underestimate the extent to which it is indicative of the situation (Fiske and Taylor, 1984).
		Next the participants should be told to read the “Three Theories Handout.” After reading the handout and hearing the mini-lecture on unintentional racism and attribution theory, the students should be asked to apply the concepts of aversive racism and FAE to their reactions to the Tim Hanks case study.
	www.sciencecases.org /racism/racism_notes.asp (3292 words)

	Attribution Process Lecture Notes
		If our attributions are accurate, they enable us to predict future behavior (if you've accurately diagnosed her as a jerk, you can predict that she'll treat you badly in the future)
		Attributions are inferences that people draw about the causes of events, others' behavior, and their own behavior
		Attributions are made to internal factors (John) or external factors (Bill or circumstance) depending on three variables
	www.usu.edu /psy3510/personatt3.html (1046 words)

	Q17A1 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The fundamental attribution error is overestimating dispositional causes for a behavior, and underestimating situational causes.
		In this situation, the professor is underestimating the situational cause for the behavior (she was assigned to write on this topic) and overestimating the dispositional causes (she really favors tuition increases).
		In this example, the professor commits this error even though he was the one who assigned her the topic (he was probably not a social psychology professor though).
	www.bsos.umd.edu /psyc/psyc221/exam1/Q17A1.html (134 words)

	:: Welcome to Social Psychology ::
		The fundamental attribution error (also known as the correspondence bias) is the tendency to attribute behavior to real or imagined dispositions of the person and to neglect influential aspects of the situation confronting the person.
		Another reason for the fundamental attribution error is that people and their behavior tend to be more salient than situations.
		Interdependent peoples are less likely to make the error than independent peoples, in part because their tendency to pay attention to context encourages them to look to the situation confronting the actor.
	www.wwnorton.com /socialPsych/reviews/ch09.asp (591 words)

	Fundamental attribution error - Definition, explanation
		In attribution theory, the fundamental attribution error (sometimes referred to as the actor-observer bias, correspondence bias or overattribution effect) is the tendency for people to over-emphasize dispositional, or personality-based, explanations for behaviors observed in others while under-emphasizing the role and power of situational influences on the same behavior.
		More recently some psychologists including Daniel Gilbert have begun using the term "correspondence bias" for the fundamental attribution error and the two terms are often used synonymously.
		Thus, even when subjects were aware that the speeches made were solely because of the flip of a coin, they committed the fundamental attribution error when it came to judging the motivation behind pro or anti-Castro attitudes of the speech makers.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/f/fu/fundamental_attribution_error.php (840 words)

	Fundamental attribution error - InformationBlast
		In other words, people tend to have a default assumption that what a person does is based more on what"kind" of person she is, rather than the social and environmental forces at work on that person.
		However, when the subjects were specifically told that the speech makers gave either a pro or an anti-Castro speech solely as the result of a coin flip (random), the subjects still rated the people who gave the pro-Castro speeches as having, on average, a more positive attitude towards Castro then those giving anti-Castro speeches.
		There is some evidence to support the contention that cultures which tend emphasize the individual over the group ("individualistic" cultures) tend to make more dispositional attributions then do the "collectivist" cultures.
	www.informationblast.com /Fundamental_attribution_error.html (650 words)

	Attribution and Attraction in Psychology 101 at AllPsych Online
		This section will explore the social areas of attribution (how we interpret those around us) and attraction (what we seek in a friend or partner).
		An attribute is an inference about the cause of a behavior.
		According to the Attribution Theory, we tend to explain our own behavior and the behavior of others by assigning attributes to these behavior.
	www.allpsych.com /psychology101/attribution_attraction.html (1082 words)

	interdisciplines : Understanding Suicide Terrorism : Genesis and Future of Suicide Terrorism
		'Social psychologists have investigated the “fundamental attribution error,” a tendency for people to explain behavior in terms of individual personality traits, even when significant situational factors in the larger society are at work.
		Altemeyer has found that such authoritarians tend to be fundamentalist, to prefer a literal interpretation of religious texts, to have a particular indifference to government injustices and to lying by the elite, to have little interest in human rights, and to have little guilt owing to their belief in God's forgiveness of their transgressions.
		Their cognitive traits include an impaired ability to make correct inferences, agreement with contradictory ideas and, interestingly, a special vulnerability to the fundamental attribution error.
	www.interdisciplines.org /terrorism/papers/1/10/printable/discussions/view/762 (1185 words)

	McGraw-Hill/Dushkin: PowerWeb Article
		The first studies to investigate the fundamental attribution error looked at the conclusions people draw when they watch another person’s behavior.
		However, we may attribute behavior to a person’s character when that person had little or no control over what she did.
		Research on the fundamental attribution error tells us that factors in our situation are more powerful than we think they are.
	www.dushkin.com /olc/genarticle.mhtml?article=27034 (5452 words)

	Group attribution error in TutorGig Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The 'group attribution error' is a group-serving, attributional bias identical to the fundamental attribution error except that it occurs between members of different groups rather than different individuals.
		Group members are more likely to attribute a fellow group member's actions to their arbitrary circumstances, while attributing a non-group member's actions to something in that group's inherent disposition.
		The group attribution error was first reported by Scott Allison and David Messick.
	www.tutorgig.com /ed/Group_attribution_error (158 words)

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		In retrospect, I fell victim to the Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE).
		I attributed her unwillingness to give me the seats I wanted to stable personality characteristics, which led me to view this woman as unfriendly and incompetent.
		If I had shown the FAE, I wouldíve attributed her bad mood and irritability to her personality, not to the pressure she was under to do well on the test and the fatigue she must have felt after taking it.
	www.umich.edu /~psychol/380sek/mtjourn.html (1925 words)

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