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 t
hey 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
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.
