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Attribution

Everything on this site about attribution — each one naming the study behind it.

You rate people as smarter based on their role.
A 1977 study found that participants rated 'questioners' in a quiz show as more intelligent than 'contestants'.…
You judge your actions by circumstances but others by character.
Research in the 1970s proposed an actor-observer asymmetry in attribution, though modern meta-analyses indicate this e…
You take personal credit for wins but blame external luck.
The self-serving bias is the tendency to attribute success to your internal character and failure to your environment.…
You judge others by character and yourself by circumstance.
The actor-observer asymmetry explains why you interpret your own bad behavior as a situational necessity while labelin…
You attribute your own poor choices to the situation.
This phenomenon is known as the actor-observer bias, not the fundamental attribution error.…