The fundamental attribution error in most advisors in how easily infrequently we make personal versus situational attributions about others. And other similar weed that we overemphasize the power of the person is that we tend to make more personal attributions for the behavior of others than we do for ourselves, and to make more situational attributions for our own behavior than for the behavior of others. This is known as the actor observer bias or the friends. When we are asked about the behavior of other people, we tend to quickly make three attributions for example, oh, Sarah, she's really shy. On the other hand, when we think of ourselves, we are more likely to think the situation into account. So we tend to say, Well, I'm trying my team at Ford but with my close friends are not at all shy.

You might be able to get a feel for actor observer the prince by being The following short quiz. First, think about a person you know, but not particularly Vout a distant relation, for example, a colleague at work, then for each role circle which of the three choices that describes his or her personality? For instance, is the person's personality more energetic, relaxed? Or does it depend on the situation after you're finished, and sort of questions again, but at this time about yourself. Like the fundamental attribution error, the actor observer difference reflects our tendency to overweight the personal explanations of the behavior of other people. However, a recent meta analysis has suggested that actor observer befriends might not be as common in strong as the fundamental attribution error in may only be likely to occur under certain conditions.

But the tendency to overemphasize personal attributions in others versus ourselves seems to cure for several reasons. One is simply because other people are associated And in our social environments, when you look at someone's behavior, you tend to focus on that person and are likely to make personal attributions about him or her is just easy because you're looking right at the person. When you look at Mark giving that big tip, you see him and so who decided he caught the action. In fact, research has shown that we tend to make more personal attributions for the people we are directly observing in our environments than for other people who are part of the situation, but who we are not directly watching. When you think of your own behavior, however, you do not see yourself but are instead more focused on the situation. You also tend to have more memory for your own past situations than for others.

You'll come to realize that it is not only you but also the different situations that you are in that determine your behavior. Maybe you can remember it the other times where you do And give a big tip and so you conclude that your behavior is caused more by the situation then by your underlying personality. These greener access to evidence about our own past behaviors can lead us to realize that our conduct varies quite a lot across situations. Whereas because we have more limited memory of the behavior of others, we may see them as less changeable. This in turn leads to another related attributional tendency, namely the trade ascription bias, which defines the tendency for people to view their own personality, beliefs and behaviors is more variable than those of others. We're more likely to correct the behaviors of others.

It's just reflecting the type of people we think they are, whereas we tend to the fix our own conduct is more nuanced in socially flexible A second reason for the tendency to make so many personal attributions ease this we are simply easier to make density attributions we have to admit, in fact, personal attributions seem to be made spontaneously without any effort on our part and even on the basis of only very limited behavior. For example, personal attributions, just popping up into mind before situational attributions to one reason for this is that it is cognitively demanding to try to process all the relevant factors in someone else's situation. And to consider how all these forces may be affecting that person's conduct, it is much more straightforward to label a behavior in terms of personality trait. And third, personal attributions also dominated because we need to meet them in order to understand the situation that is, we cannot make either a personal attributions for example mark is generous or situational attributions, Mark is trying to process friends.

Until we have first identified the behavior is being genuine behavior, leaving that big tape, it was a generous thing to do. So we end up starting with the personal attributions generous and only later tried to correct or adjust our judgment with, oh, we think perhaps it was really the situation that caused him to do that. adjusting our judgments generally takes more effort than does making the original judgment in the adjustment is frequently not sufficient, we are more likely to commit attributional errors for example, quickly jumping to the conclusion, that behavior is caused by underlying personality. When we are tired, distracted or busy doing other things. There is a very important general message about perceiving others that applies here. We shouldn't be too quick to judge other people.

It is cognitively easy to think that poor people are lazy, that people who harm someone all are mean and the people who say something hard are old or unfriendly that these attributions we frequently overemphasize the role of the person. This can sometimes result in overly harsh evaluations of people who don't really deserve them. We tend to blame the victim, even for events that they can't really control. Some things people are lazy, or rude, but they may also be the victims of the situations. When you find yourself making strong personal attributions for the behaviors of others. Your knowledge of attribution research can help you stop and think more carefully.

Would you want other people to make personal attributions for your behavior in the same situation? Or would you prefer that they were fully considered the situation surrounding your behavior? Are you perhaps making the fundamental attribution error? Think about it. Ultimately, too far apart surprise, a well known thing we need to be tried to be generous to others in our attributions. Every one we need fighting a battle we know nothing about