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In psychology, an attributional bias is a cognitive bias that affects the way we determine who or what was responsible for an event or action (attribution). Attributional biases typically take the form of actor/observer differences: people involved in...


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The Journal of Social Psychology
Gender and attribution: a reversal of bias?
08/01/1993: 644 words, approx. 2 pages
KNOWING A PERSON'S GENDER can bias one's attributions regarding the causes of that person's success or failure. In the past, successful performances by American men were more likely to be attributed to ability, whereas women's successes were more likely to be attributed to...
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Social Behavior and Personality
Culture moderates the self-serving bias: Etic and Emic features of causal attributions in India and in Canada
01/01/2001: 4,895 words, approx. 16 pages
This study tested the hypothesis that individuals from a collectivist culture explain life events using more contextual causes than do those from an individualistic culture. Undergraduates' causal attributions about positive and negative life events were assessed in India (n = 195) and Canada (n...
 


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Attributional Bias
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Analyzes a fictional case in which the accused blames his victim. Describes how attributional bias can explain the court statement.


 

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