Attribution •Inferences Made about the Causes of Other People’s Behavior
•Dispositional Attributions
•Situational Attributions•Self-serving bias
•Make situational attributions for our failures but dispositional attributions for our successes
•Ex -A student gets a good grade on a test and tells herself that she studied hard or is good at the material but when she fails, she blames it on her teacher stating ”My professor just does not like me!”
•Fundamental attribution error
•Explain others’ behavior in terms of dispositional attributions rather than situational ones
•Ex –When you are driving and someone overtakes you. You think that person is a horrible driver but maybe they had to take a family member to a hospital.
