I will post around 50 cognitive biases and ask for your help to summarise each bias in a short sentence. We will then have 50 short summaries that are easy to remember and this will increases our individual IQ by perhaps 20 or 30 points and even more.
Wiki page here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
Partial abstract here:
In social psychology, fundamental attribution error, also known as correspondence bias or attribution effect, is a cognitive attribution bias where observers underemphasize situational and environmental factors for the behavior of an actor while overemphasizing dispositional or personality factors. In other words, observers tend to overattribute the behaviors of others to their personality (e.g., he is late because he's selfish) and underattribute them to the situation or context (e.g., he is late because he got stuck in traffic). Although personality traits and predispositions are considered to be observable facts in psychology, the fundamental attribution error is an error because it misinterprets their effects.
Here is my attempt at a concise summary:
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If something bad happens first look for reasons other than blaming a person.
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Wiki page here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
Partial abstract here:
In social psychology, fundamental attribution error, also known as correspondence bias or attribution effect, is a cognitive attribution bias where observers underemphasize situational and environmental factors for the behavior of an actor while overemphasizing dispositional or personality factors. In other words, observers tend to overattribute the behaviors of others to their personality (e.g., he is late because he's selfish) and underattribute them to the situation or context (e.g., he is late because he got stuck in traffic). Although personality traits and predispositions are considered to be observable facts in psychology, the fundamental attribution error is an error because it misinterprets their effects.
Here is my attempt at a concise summary:
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If something bad happens first look for reasons other than blaming a person.
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