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Fundamental attribution error in political media

January 10, 2022 By Useful Ideas Project Leave a Comment

Fundamental attribution error in the media

Fundamental attribution error - what is it? In social psychology, fundamental attribution error is the tendency for people to over-emphasise personality-based explanations for an individual's behaviour, and under-emphasise situational and environmental explanations. “Psychologists refer to the inappropriate use of dispositional explanation as the fundamental attribution … [Read more...] about Fundamental attribution error in political media

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