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- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1981 American Psychological Association
- ISSN
- 0022-3514
- eISSN
- 1939-1315
- DOI
- 10.1037/0022-3514.40.2.346
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Comments that the tendency that has become widely recognized as "the fundamental attribution error" may represent neither an error nor a fundamental tendency in social perception. Contrary to the assumption underlying the fundamental attribution error, the imputation of dispositional characteristics to individuals may be both logically and empirically tenable. Cogent address of the accuracy of attribution necessitates much greater progress toward establishing criteria of accuracy than has occurred to date. At present, evidence regarding a pronounced tendency to make attributions to situational factors may just as likely represent a fundamental error as it does a strong tendency to make attributions to dispositional characteristics. Also discussed are a distinction between error and bias and some of the indirect evidence that has been represented as showing the fundamental attribution error. (22 ref)
Journal
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology – American Psychological Association
Published: Feb 1, 1981