Dispositional Attribution

Social psychology - Social cognition 1 The actor-observer difference is a refinement of this bias, the tendency to make dispositional attributions for other people's behavior and situational attributions for our own.:107 The self- serving bias is the tendency to attribute dispositional causes for successes, and situational causes for failure, particularly when self-esteem is threatened

Persuasion - Attribution Theory 1 A citizen criticizing a president by saying the nation is lacking economic progress and health because the president is either lazy or lacking in economic intuition is utilizing a dispositional attribution.

Persuasion - Attribution Theory 1 When trying to persuade others to like us or another person, we tend to explain positive behaviors and accomplishments with dispositional attribution, and negative behaviors and shortcomings with situational attributions.

Attribution theory - Dispositional attributions 1 Dispositional attribution is a tendency to attribute people’s behaviors to their dispositions; that is, to their personality, character, and ability.Pettigrew,

Attribution theory - Dispositional attributions 1 Therefore, the customer made dispositional attribution by attributing the waiter’s behavior directly to his/her personality rather than considering situational factors that might have caused the whole “rudeness”.Graham, Folkes

Persuade - Attribution Theory 1 A citizen criticizing a president by saying the nation is lacking economic progress and health because the president is either lazy or lacking in economic intuition is utilizing a dispositional attribution.

Persuade - Attribution Theory 1 When trying to persuade others to like us or another person, we tend to explain positive behaviors and accomplishments with dispositional attribution, but our own negative behaviors and shortcomings with situational attributions. nations/theories/fundamental_attribution_e rror.htm

Social psychology (psychology) - Social cognition 1 The actor-observer difference is a refinement of this bias, the tendency to make dispositional attributions for other people's behavior and situational attributions for our own

Emotional labor - Determinants of using emotional labor 1 # Dispositional attribution|Dispositional traits and inner feeling on the job; such as employee's emotional expressiveness, which refers to the capability to use facial expressions, voice, gestures, and body movements to transmit emotions;Friedman, H

Stanford prison experiment - Conclusions 1 The results of the experiment favor Attribution theory|situational attribution of behavior rather than dispositional attribution (a result caused by internal characteristics)

Attribution bias - Harold Kelley 1 Kelley proposed that we are more likely to make dispositional attributions when consensus is low (most other people don't behave in the same way), consistency is high (a person behaves this way across most situations), and distinctiveness is low (a person's behavior is not unique to this situation)

Attribution bias - Intergroup relations 1 In particular, elementary school students are more likely to make dispositional attributions when their friends perform positive behaviors, but situational attributions when disliked peers perform positive behaviors

Base rate fallacy - Findings in psychology 1 Richard Nisbett has argued that some attributional biases like the fundamental attribution error are instances of the base rate fallacy: people underutilize consensus information (the base rate) about how others behaved in similar situations and instead prefer simpler dispositional attributions.

False consensus effect 1 Instead of looking at situational attributions, personality psychology evaluates a person with dispositional attributions, making the false-consensus effect relatively irrelevant in that domain

Dispositional attribution 1 'Dispositional attribution' is the explanation of individual human behavior|behavior as a result caused by internal characteristics that reside within the individual, as opposed to external (situational) influences that stem from the Social environment|environment or culture in which that individual is found. 'Dispositionalism' is the general tendency to prefer dispositional attribution rather than situational attribution.

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