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Attribution

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You judge people by their actions, but yourself by intent.
Research suggests the actor-observer asymmetry is highly context-dependent rather than a universal cognitive bias.…
You judge people by their actions but yourself by your intentions.
Although Jones and Nisbett (1971) proposed that people attribute their own actions to situational factors while attrib…
You view your own moral failures as situational accidents.
A 1971 study by Jones and Nisbett proposed that actors attribute their own behaviors to situational factors while obse…
You blame the person, not the situation.
The correspondence bias describes your tendency to infer a person's character from their behavior while ignoring situa…
You judge people by their actions but yourself by intent.
Jones and Nisbett (1971) proposed that actors tend to attribute their behavior to situational factors while observers …
You explain your mistakes differently than you explain theirs.
The actor–observer asymmetry, proposed by Jones and Nisbett in 1972, hypothesized that individuals attribute their own…
You view your own mistakes as bad luck.
The claim attributes both halves of the actor-observer asymmetry to the Fundamental Attribution Error.…
You blame circumstances for failure but yourself for success.
The self-serving bias is observed as a pattern of attribution, but its status as a defense mechanism for self-esteem i…
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.…