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| Linking an instance of behavior (ours or others) to a cause |
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| A person's way of explaining events along three dimensions: internal/external, stable/unstable, and global/specific |
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| the idea that we should attribute behavior to potential causes that co-occur with the behavior |
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| Refers to what most people would do in a given situation - that is, whether most people would behave the same way or not |
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| refers to what an individual does in different situations - that is whether the behavior is unique to a particular situation or occurs in all situations |
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| refers to what an indivual does in a given situation on different occasions - that is, whether next time under the same circumstances the person would behave the same way or differently. |
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| likely if the behavior is high in consensus, distinctiveness, and consistency |
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| likely if the behavior is low in consensus and distinctiveness and high in consistency |
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| idea that we should assign reduced weight to a particular cause of behavior id there are other plausible causes that might have produced it |
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| the idea that we should assign greater weight to a particular cause of behavior if there are other causes present that normally would produce the opposite outcome. |
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| thought of what might have or could have happened "if only" something had been done differently |
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| Our emotional reaction to an event tends to be amplified if it almost did not happen |
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| the tendency to attribute failure and other bad events to external circumstances but to attribute success and good events to oneself |
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| fundamental attribution error |
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| the tendency to believe that a behavior is due to a person's disposition, even when there are situational forces present that are sufficient to explain the behavior |
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| the belief that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get |
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| actor-observer difference |
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| a difference in attribution based on who is making the causal assessment: the actor or the observer |
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