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Explore 8 cognitive biases related to this topic.
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Correspondence bias is the tendency to infer stable personality traits from others' behavior while underestimating situational influences.
Social Biases / Attribution and impression formation
/ Fundamental Attribution Error
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Trait ascription bias is the tendency to see others' behavior as reflecting fixed traits, while viewing our own behavior as more flexible and influenced by circumstances.
Social Biases / Self–other perception
/ Self–Other Asymmetry
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The ultimate attribution error is the tendency to explain negative behaviors of outgroup members as due to their character, while excusing similar behavior in ingroup members as situational.
Social Biases / Intergroup attributions
/ Intergroup Attribution Bias
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Defensive attribution is a bias where people attribute more blame to a perpetrator as the consequences of an accident become more severe, or if they perceive themselves to be similar to the victim.
Social Biases
/ Defensive attribution hypothesis
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Self-enhancement bias is a type of motivation that works to make people feel good about themselves and to maintain self-esteem.
Social Biases
/ Self-serving bias (related)
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The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to overestimate the role of personality and underestimate the role of situations when explaining other people’s behavior.
Social Biases / Attribution and explanation
/ FAE
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Actor–observer bias is the tendency to explain our own behavior with situational factors while attributing other people’s similar behavior to their character or disposition.
Social Biases / Attribution asymmetries
/ Actor–Observer Asymmetry
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Self-serving bias is the tendency to attribute our successes to internal qualities and our failures to external factors, protecting self-esteem at the cost of accuracy.
Social Biases / Self-enhancement and blame
/ Self-Enhancement Bias