Question

When he falls on the sidewalk during the winter, Jeremiah thinks, "This ice is brutal!" When he sees his friend Ed fall on the same icy sidewalk a few hours later, he laughs and says, "You are really clumsy!" Ed’s attitudes in these cases reflect the impact of the
A) Fundamental attribution error
B) Out-group bias
C) In-group bias
D) bias

Answer 1

Answer:

D) bias

Explanation:

In these cases, Ed's attitude is particularly influenced by actor-observer bias. In social psychology, this concept refers to how individuals tend to associate their actions to external causes and the conduct of other individuals to internal causes. This attributional bias affects our perception and interaction with other people. So, based on whether a person is the actor or observer of a situation, his/her attributions will usually change.