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You blame the person, not the situation.
The correspondence bias describes your tendency to infer a person's character from their behavior while ignoring situational pressures.
If you see someone stumble, you assume they are clumsy rather than noticing the uneven floor. You prioritize personality explanations because they are mentally easier to process than analyzing complex, external circumstances. This leaves you consistently misjudging the motives of everyone around you.
You overlook the environment to simplify human behavior.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Jones and Harris, 1967
- What the check found
- The definition is accurate and the citation of Jones and Harris (1967) for the seminal 'Attribution of Attitudes' study is correct. The broad behavioral implication in the claim is an extrapolation rather than a proven fact.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
Related
One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.