which of these defines a tendency to underestimate the effects of external or situational causes of behavior and to overestimate
the effects of internal or personal causes? a. fundamental attribution error b. stereotyping c. perceptual selectivity d. halo effect e. self-serving bias
Fundamental attribution error defines a tendency to underestimate the effects of external or situational causes of behavior and to overestimate the effects of internal or personal causes.
Fundamental attribution error (FAE), also referred to as correspondence bias or attribution effect in social psychology, is the propensity for people to overemphasise dispositional and personality-based explanations for an individual's observed behaviour while underplaying situational and environmental explanations. The term "tendency to believe that what people do reflects who they are" has been used to characterise this effect, which is the tendency to overattribute people's actions (what they do or say) to their personalities and underattribute them to the circumstance or context. The mistake is in assuming that someone's actions are exclusively indicative of their personality rather than that they are partly indicative of it and primarily by external factors.
