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cognition

You judge your own actions by intent, but others' by outcomes.

The actor-observer asymmetry was a widely cited hypothesis, but it has failed to replicate in broad meta-analyses.

Jones and Nisbett (1971) proposed the theory, but subsequent research (e.g., Malle et al., 2007) found it lacks support.

You grant yourself a complexity that you deny to others.

Where this comes from

Study
Jones and Nisbett, 1971
What the check found
The original 1971 study is correctly attributed, but the claim presents a debunked hypothesis as an established fact. Modern meta-analyses have failed to replicate the purported effect.
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.