Question

Mike and his wife, Amanda, are arguing about his in-laws. Mike doesn’t want them to visit because they fight all the time when they come to the house and he is worried about the effect that their fighting is having on Mike and Amanda’s children. Amanda finally yells out: “What about our fighting?” Mike replies, “Well, that’s different. We fight because we’re having a disagreement, they fight because they hate each other!” This is an example of

Answer 1

Fundamental Attribution Error is the correct answer.

In Psychology, Fundamental Attribution Error, also known as correspondence bias, is a concept people use to describe the individual's tendency to explain other people's conduct by attributing a cause to such behaviors. In order to do so, we tend to give explanations based on internal factors (personality and disposition) rather than external situational influences.