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Fundamental Attribution Error

The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to overexplain other people's behavior by their character or disposition while underweighting the situational factors that constrain it. You will learn why the same bias does not apply as strongly to explanations of your own behavior.

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The Fundamental Attribution Error: Blaming the Person, Not the Situation

Explains why observers over-attribute others' behavior to character while excusing their own behavior with situational factors.