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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Fundamental Attribution Error"”.
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Two Sources of Influence Related to the Use of the Discounting Principle: Specific Versus General Causal Attributions and the Believability of Attributions
Numerous studies on causal attribution have supported the discounting principle which has been stated by Kelley (1973) as follows: "The role of a given cause in producing a given effect is discounted if other causes are also present" (p. 113). Kun, Murray, and Sredl (1980) have noted that …
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SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND ATTRIBUTION
… purpose of this study was twofold. First, an Attribution of Responsibility for Substance Use scale (ARSU) was developed with a sample of 140 university substance users and 69 substance abusers. Second, this study determined if the actor-observer hypothesis of traditional attribution theory …
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The Influence of Structural and Perceived Privilege on Political Participation in the United Kingdom
… especially where they subscribe to the fundamental attribution error. These effects are as hypothesised and confirm the role of both structural and perceived privilege in influencing political participation in the United Kingdom.
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Branch Campus Classroom Expectations: An Ethnographic Study of Transnational Faculty and Students in Qatar
… Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism, culture, fundamental attribution error, and teaching and learning and educational technology in Arab Gulf nations is critically reviewed for this study. The study had four phases of data collection: (1) an initial online questionnaire about cultural …
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Preventing Financial Reporting Fraud: A Holistic View of the Attributions Made Following Potential Fraudulent Financial Reporting Events
… in the judicial process are biased in their attributions when evaluating causal factors related to financial reporting decisions. More specifically, it focuses on how individuals outside the profession of accounting, laymen jurors and corporate lawyers, make attributions when observing …
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Investigating children’s perspective taking and normative frames of social understanding: A critical design ethnographic study of teacher-led dialogue around stories in early years’ classrooms
… with others. One of these biases, called the ‘Fundamental Attribution Error’ (Jones & Harris, 1967), also referred to as ‘correspondence bias’ or ‘attribution bias’ is the tendency to make dispositional judgments while overlooking situational factors in considering others’ perspectives and …