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Fundamental Attribution Error
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| Seņor Popcorn-Coconut 2007-04-24, 9:25 am |
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundam...tribution_error
Quote from the article:
"the fundamental attribution error (also known as correspondence bias or
overattribution effect) is the tendency for people to over-emphasize
dispositional, or personality-based, explanations for behaviors observed
in others while under-emphasizing situational explanations. In other
words, people have an unjustified tendency to assume that a person's
actions depend on what 'kind' of person that person is rather than on
the social and environmental forces that influence the person.
Overattribution is less likely, perhaps even inverted, when people
explain their own behavior; this discrepancy is called the
actor-observer bias."
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| Ken S. Tucker 2007-04-24, 1:25 pm |
| On Apr 24, 1:36 am, Se=F1or Popcorn-Coconut <u...@domain.invalid> wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundam...tribution_error
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> Quote from the article:
> "the fundamental attribution error (also known as correspondence bias or
> overattribution effect) is the tendency for people to over-emphasize
> dispositional, or personality-based, explanations for behaviors observed
> in others while under-emphasizing situational explanations. In other
> words, people have an unjustified tendency to assume that a person's
> actions depend on what 'kind' of person that person is rather than on
> the social and environmental forces that influence the person.
> Overattribution is less likely, perhaps even inverted, when people
> explain their own behavior; this discrepancy is called the
> actor-observer bias."
Neat, I think I can understand that.
Ken
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| Seņor Popcorn-Coconut 2007-04-25, 9:25 am |
| Ken S. Tucker wrote:
> On Apr 24, 1:36 am, Seņor Popcorn-Coconut <u...@domain.invalid> wrote:
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> Neat, I think I can understand that.
Psychology's pretty cool. Although some might make light of it, it's
really quite a powerful discipline, crossing over into many others, like
ergonomics and artificial intelligence. Architecture benefits greatly
from it of course.
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| Michael Bulatovich 2007-04-25, 9:25 am |
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"Seņor Popcorn-Coconut" <user@domain.invalid> wrote in message
news:f0nb0b$d1j$1@aioe.org...
> Ken S. Tucker wrote:
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> Psychology's pretty cool. Although some might make light of it, it's
> really quite a powerful discipline, crossing over into many others, like
> ergonomics and artificial intelligence. Architecture benefits greatly from
> it of course.
Not to mention politics and marketing. I'd like to thank you for that link
too, as it wafted in and out of my head several times yesterday and today.
Gracias Seņor.
--
MichaelB
www.michaelbulatovich.ca
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| Kris Krieger 2007-04-27, 5:25 pm |
| Seņor Popcorn-Coconut <user@domain.invalid> wrote in news:f0kfi2$cva$1
@aioe.org:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundam...tribution_error
>
> Quote from the article:
> "the fundamental attribution error (also known as correspondence bias or
> overattribution effect) is the tendency for people to over-emphasize
> dispositional, or personality-based, explanations for behaviors observed
> in others while under-emphasizing situational explanations. In other
> words, people have an unjustified tendency to assume that a person's
> actions depend on what 'kind' of person that person is rather than on
> the social and environmental forces that influence the person.
> Overattribution is less likely, perhaps even inverted, when people
> explain their own behavior; this discrepancy is called the
> actor-observer bias."
>
Simple - Lack of logic/rationality. People who are both primarily emotion-
driven, and immature, strongly tend towards perceiving the unverse and its
denizens as reflections of their own inner world. IOW, projection. It's
like what our grandmothers used to tell us: Liars and theives typically
assume that there are no honest people, Bullies have a need to feel
powerful because they are insecure and fearful. And so on.
It's just that our grandmothers used slear, simple language, rather than
polysyllabic terminology and overly complex grammatical constructs.
- Kris
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| Seņor Popcorn-Coconut 2007-04-28, 5:25 pm |
| Michael Bulatovich wrote:
> "Seņor Popcorn-Coconut" <user@domain.invalid> wrote in message
> news:f0nb0b$d1j$1@aioe.org...
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> Not to mention politics and marketing. I'd like to thank you for that link
> too, as it wafted in and out of my head several times yesterday and today.
> Gracias Seņor.
You're welcome.
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| Seņor Popcorn-Coconut 2007-04-28, 5:25 pm |
| Kris Krieger wrote:
> Seņor Popcorn-Coconut <user@domain.invalid> wrote in news:f0kfi2$cva$1
> @aioe.org:
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> Simple - Lack of logic/rationality. People who are both primarily emotion-
> driven, and immature, strongly tend towards perceiving the unverse and its
> denizens as reflections of their own inner world. IOW, projection. It's
> like what our grandmothers used to tell us: Liars and theives typically
> assume that there are no honest people, Bullies have a need to feel
> powerful because they are insecure and fearful. And so on.
> It's just that our grandmothers used slear, simple language, rather than
> polysyllabic terminology and overly complex grammatical constructs.
Psychology's one of most readable of the disciplines-- scientific or
otherwise. Often, so-called simple language or, as you say, terminology
(5 syllables) requires complex elaborations to be understood.
While practically any human endeavor can become quite complex, the
'fundamental attribution error' seems pretty tight, concise and
understandable if you ask me, especially for what it does and describes.
When all your grandmothers get together and create a sufficient body of
research that conforms to some important scientific principles, minus
the "overly complex grammatical constructs" I'll be all ears. 
One grandmother I know used to think that being gay was "unnatural".
"Whatever definition is considered apt, identifying particular items of
knowledge that are 'common sense' is more difficult. Philosophers may
choose to avoid using the phrase where precise language is required."
-- Wikipedia, on Common Sense
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