The 9/11 Wars
by Jason Burke · 1 Sep 2011 · 885pp · 271,563 words
Muslim holy place by other Muslims.70 The problem with this highly ideological vision of the Long War was that it perpetuated one of the fundamental attribution errors that had underpinned the conceptualization and execution of the entire ‘Global War on Terrorism’. Men like Abizaid within the military may have instinctively sensed that
If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy?
by Raj Raghunathan · 25 Apr 2016 · 505pp · 127,542 words
Foremost Relationship Expert (New York: Harmony, 2015). found in a set of studies: R. Raghunathan, and E. J. Han, “Default Social Cynicism: Asymmetries in the Fundamental Attribution Error,” working paper, University of Texas at Austin, 2014. Interpersonal Trust Scale: The items in the scale have been adapted from J. Rotter, “A New Scale
Uncomfortably Off: Why the Top 10% of Earners Should Care About Inequality
by Marcos González Hernando and Gerry Mitchell · 23 May 2023
. We apply to them an ‘individualising lens’ – the exact opposite of our approach to others’ successes and our own failures. This is known as the ‘fundamental attribution error’.26 In countries where levels of inequality are increasing, people become less aware and less concerned about the issue, which affects how and the extent
Unhealthy societies: the afflictions of inequality
by Richard G. Wilkinson · 19 Nov 1996 · 268pp · 89,761 words
tendency—mentioned earlier—to see social institutions as if they were expressions of human nature seems to be supported by what has been called ‘the fundamental attribution error’. This is a systematic tendency noted by social psychologists for people to underestimate the impact of external situational factors and to overestimate the role of
Why Buddhism is True
by Robert Wright
Samaritan didn’t increase the chances of being a Good Samaritan. This experiment fits into a large body of psychological literature about something called “the fundamental attribution error.” The word attribution refers to the tendency to explain people’s behavior in terms of either “dispositional” factors—in other words, the kind of person
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tend to underestimate the role of situation and overestimate the role of disposition. In other words, we’re biased in favor of essence. The term fundamental attribution error was coined in 1977 by the psychologist Lee D. Ross, and its implications can be disorienting. For example, it’s common to think of criminals
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consistently like clergy and that induce criminals to look, act, feel, and think like criminals.” The philosopher Gilbert Harman, after reviewing the literature on the fundamental attribution error, raised questions about the very existence of such character traits as honesty, benevolence, and friendliness. “Since it is possible to explain our ordinary belief in
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’t the “real me” who did the bad thing. But with other people, I’m less likely to ponder that possibility. That’s what the fundamental attribution error is: I attribute their behavior to disposition, not situation; I locate the badness in them, not in environmental factors. Why would the human mind be
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seem to have a mechanism designed to deal with this particular threat. You might call it the essence-preservation mechanism. It turns out that the fundamental attribution error—the tendency to overestimate the role of disposition and underestimate the role of situation—isn’t quite as simple as psychologists originally thought. Sometimes we
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’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom. New Harbinger Publications. Harman, Gilbert. 1999. “Moral Philosophy Meets Social Psychology: Virtue Ethics and the Fundamental Attribution Error.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 99: 315–31, new series. Harris, Dan. 2014. 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress
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Aspects of Mate Attraction in Human Males.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 29: 393–404. Sabini, John, Michael Siepmann, and Julia Stein. 2001. “The Really Fundamental Attribution Error in Social Psychological Research.” Psychological Inquiry 12(1): 1–15. Salzberg, Sharon. 2002. Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness. Shambhala Classics. ———. 2003. Faith: Trusting Your
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Split-Second Persuasion: The Ancient Art and New Science of Changing Minds
by Kevin Dutton · 3 Feb 2011 · 338pp · 100,477 words
is our own and happens to be good, or is that of somebody else and happens to be bad) has a name in psychology: the fundamental attribution error. And with good reason. It is, as its name suggests, fundamental. 3Just how fundamental is revealed in a study conducted by Lee Ross, Professor of
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fact the observers rated the question master as being more clued up than 80 per cent of all the other students at the university! The fundamental attribution error offers us a prime example of what Michael Mansfield was referring to when he talked about impressions and the power of narrative. Take a rape
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on rape as a violent, as opposed to an erotic, act tells a simple, coherent ‘story’ – one which plays right into the hands of the fundamental attribution error. With their attention focused solely on the defendant, and forced to account for his actions, there is, so far as the jury is concerned, only
Stocks for the Long Run 5/E: the Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long-Term Investment Strategies
by Jeremy Siegel · 7 Jan 2014 · 517pp · 139,477 words
), pp. 552-564. 13. A. H. Hastorf, D. J. Schneider, and J. Polefka, Person Perception, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1970. This is also called the Fundamental Attribution Error. 14. For reference to a model that incorporates success as a source of overconfidence, see Simon Gervais and Terrance Odean, “Learning to Be Overconfident,” Review
Engineering Security
by Peter Gutmann
Reasoning”, Norbert Schwarz and Herbert Bless, in “Emotion and Social Judgements”, Routledge, 1991, p.55. [324] “On being happy and mistaken: mood effects on the fundamental attribution error”, Joe Forgas, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol.75, No.2 (August 1998), p.318. [325] “Mood in foreign exchange trading: Cognitive processes and
The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century
by Rodrigo Aguilera · 10 Mar 2020 · 356pp · 106,161 words
be stopped or worse still, when she was seen as a martyr.36 This experiment, like many others, shows that BJW also strongly invokes the fundamental attribution error, another well-known cognitive bias whereby people tend to attribute personal characteristics as the main causal factors behind their behavior. As Lerner explained, if your
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factors like a booming economy, a surge in demand for the product, or technological improvements, to name a few. This is another example of the fundamental attribution error mentioned in Chapter Two. Perhaps it’s natural that we adorn the attributes of leadership to the business elite: we’d all like to think
Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy
by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake · 7 Nov 2017 · 346pp · 89,180 words
top of firms to demand higher pay. As the economic journalist Chris Dillow3 likes to point out, humans are particularly prone to what psychologists call “fundamental attribution error”—the mistaken assumption that outcomes (such as how well a company does) are related to salient inputs (such as the skill of the CEO) rather
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-to-observe factors. A world in which increased intangible investment makes skilled managers a bit more important could easily lend fuel to the fire of fundamental attribution error, providing a rationale for powerful people like CEOs to increase their pay by more than the economic fundamentals of the change would justify. A final
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leadership. Managing One reason for the celebrity status of managers is offered by the consistently fascinating blogger Chris Dillow,5 namely, the cognitive bias of “fundamental attribution error.” As we discussed in chapter 6, if people tend to relate the success of a company to its hero manager, rather than to general progress
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