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What is social psychology? Attributions
Why did that driver cut you off, and why did you fail that test? Social psychology begins with the explanations people give for behaviour, and those everyday explanations turn out to be biased in predictable ways.
In this topic
- Social psychology and the power of the situation
- Dispositions, situations and attributions
- The fundamental attribution error
- The quizmaster study
- Culture shapes the error
- Actor-observer bias
- Self-serving bias
- The just-world hypothesis
- Worked example: sorting attributions
- Worked example: three ways to explain a failed test
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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