Attribution+Errors

Discuss the errors in attribution. - Some psychologists favour explanations of behaviour in terms of dispositional factos rather than situational. For exemple: If people behave rudly toward us or they behave in na impolite way we instatly conclude that they have a rude kind of personality. __**SELF SERVIVING BIAS**__ media type="youtube" key="zhkNVUZ4fVM" width="560" height="315"
 * Attribution is defined as how people interpret and explain causal relationships in the social world.
 * The origin of attribution theory comes from the influential writings of Fritz Heidz in The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations (1958). When people observe and try to understand behaviour, they automatically are acting as naive psychologists. In other words, people tend to make attribution about behaviour depending whether they are performing it themselves or observing somebody acting. This is known as **actor-observer effect**. When people discuss their own behaviour they tend to atribute it **situational factors** and when people observe someone´s else behaviour they are more likely to atribute it to **dispositional factors**.
 * Attribution errors argues that people are more likely to explain people´s action pointing on dispositional factors rather than situational.
 * When people overestimate the role of dispositional factos and underestimate the situational factos. This is called the __**fundamental** **attribution** **error.**__