This document discusses various types of attribution biases in psychology. Attribution bias refers to systematic errors people make when evaluating their own and others' behaviors. The types discussed include the fundamental attribution error, actor-observer bias, self-serving bias, blaming the victim, hostile attribution bias, and group-serving bias. Each bias leads people to attribute behaviors differently based on internal versus external factors or whether behaviors are their own or someone else's.
This document discusses various types of attribution biases in psychology. Attribution bias refers to systematic errors people make when evaluating their own and others' behaviors. The types discussed include the fundamental attribution error, actor-observer bias, self-serving bias, blaming the victim, hostile attribution bias, and group-serving bias. Each bias leads people to attribute behaviors differently based on internal versus external factors or whether behaviors are their own or someone else's.
This document discusses various types of attribution biases in psychology. Attribution bias refers to systematic errors people make when evaluating their own and others' behaviors. The types discussed include the fundamental attribution error, actor-observer bias, self-serving bias, blaming the victim, hostile attribution bias, and group-serving bias. Each bias leads people to attribute behaviors differently based on internal versus external factors or whether behaviors are their own or someone else's.
This document discusses various types of attribution biases in psychology. Attribution bias refers to systematic errors people make when evaluating their own and others' behaviors. The types discussed include the fundamental attribution error, actor-observer bias, self-serving bias, blaming the victim, hostile attribution bias, and group-serving bias. Each bias leads people to attribute behaviors differently based on internal versus external factors or whether behaviors are their own or someone else's.
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By: Samuel Gilos Jr.
-Is a lack of objectivity or an inclination to favor one
thing or person over another.
- In psychology, attribution bias is a cognitive bias
that refers to the systematic errors made when people evaluate or try to find reasons for their own and others' behaviors. The fundamental attribution error The actor-observer bias The self-serving bias Blaming the victim The hostile attribution bias Group-Serving Bias The fundamental attribution error - (also known as correspondence bias or over attribution effect) is the tendency for people to over-emphasise dispositional, or personality-based explanations for behaviours observed in others while under-emphasising situational explanations.
The actor-observer bias - is a term in social
psychology that refers to a tendency to attribute one's own actions to external causes while attributing other people's behaviors to internal causes. It is a type of attributional bias that plays a role in how we perceive and interact with other people. The self-serving bias - is people's tendency to attribute positive events to their own character but attribute negative events to external factors.
Blaming the victim - A victim is a person who is
harmed by the actions of another person or as the result of circumstance. When people blame the victim, they attribute the cause of the victim’s suffering to the behaviors or characteristics of the victim, instead of attributing the cause to a perpetrator or situational factors. The hostile attribution bias - (HAB) is the tendency to interpret the behavior of others, across situations, as threatening, aggressive, or both. People who exhibit the HAB think that ambiguous behavior of others is hostile and often directed toward them, while those who do not exhibit the HAB interpret the behavior in a nonhostile, nonthreatening way.
Group-Serving Bias - is the human tendency to
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