Re:Organ transplants down as stay-at-home rules reduce fatal...
by ver_ture on Thursday May 21, 2020 @11:57AM
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Is there a bias for attributing incidents to situation over personality a bias as well? Aka is the opposite bias existent?
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Re:Organ transplants down as stay-at-home rules reduce fatal...
by clairity on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:25PM
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the opposite bias is possible in theory, but practically irrelevant. the fundamental attribution error derives from being social animals--that we care endlessly about what other people are doing and why (to predict, and shape, the social future).
the opposite--over-attributing to the situation--typically happens to deceive (e.g., shirk responsibility), rather than being an intrinsic bias of our social environment like the fundamental attribution error is.