fundamental attribution error
tendency for people to under-emphasize situational explanations for an individual's observed behavior while over-emphasizing dispositional and personality-based explanations
Facts
6 properties- Instance of
- cognitive bias
- Subclass of
- attribution bias[2]
- Part of
- psychological terminology[3]
- Different from
- actor–observer asymmetry, attribution bias[4][5]
- P14541
- 4Ep882[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en fundamental attribution error
en attribution effect
en correspondence bias
ar خطأ الإحالة الأساسي
cs Základní atribuční chyba
cs Atribuční chyba
de Ultimativer Attributionsfehler
de Misattribution
de Akteur-Beobachter-Divergenz
de Attributionsfehler
de Correspondence bias
de Fundamentaler Attributionsfehler
de Korrespondenzverzerrung
el Θεμελιώδες σφάλμα απόδοσης
es sesgo de correspondencia
fa خطای بنیادی برچسبزدن
fr erreur Fondamentale D'attribution
fr erreur d'attribution
fr erreur fondamentale d'attribution
he טעות הייחוס הבסיסית
🔖 Identifiers · 8
- GND ID
- 4702853-1
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
- 26526
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- topic/fundamental-attribution-error
- Freebase ID
- /m/01g9jv
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- fundamental_attribusjonsfeil
- JSTOR topic ID (archived)
- fundamental-attribution-errors
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
- 638126
- Quora topic ID
- Fundamental-Attribution-Error
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Summary
fundamental attribution error is a cognitive bias[1].