attribution error

collocation in English

meaningsofattributionanderror

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attribution
noun[U]
uk
/ˌæt.rɪˈbjuː.ʃən/us
/ˌæt.rəˈbjuː.ʃən/
the act of saying or thinking that something is the result or work of a particular person ...
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error
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈer.ər/us
/ˈer.ɚ/
a ...
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(Definition ofattributionanderrorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Neither source discrimination nor the think-report-say error was more strongly related to the missing information reference than the say-report-thinkattributionerror.
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This asymmetry of attitudes about responsibility is so prevalent that it has its own name - the fundamentalattributionerror.
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Although this finding nicely demonstrates that the fundamentalattributionerrordoes not necessarily predict other negative person characteristics, it cannot speak to the normative adequacy of the attributions themselves.
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As we have shown, important "errors" such as consensus bias, selfenhancement, and even the so-called fundamentalattributionerrorcan lead to accurate judgments and positive outcomes.
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We submit that few readers of this literature have carried away the dominant message that representativeness, availability, or the fundamentalattributionerrorare essential components of adaptive social cognition.
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Supporting this general statement, a meta-analysis of 19 ultimateattributionerrorstudies was published in 1990.
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The fundamentalattributionerroris most visible when people explain and assume the behavior of others.
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The fundamentalattributionerroris most visible when people explain the behavior of others.
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Altmeyer also theorized that leaders with authoritarian personality types were more susceptible to the fundamentalattributionerror.
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Being blinded by this process often leads individuals to commit the fundamentalattributionerror.
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People commitattributionerrorwhen they ascribe causality to people or environmental entities to which they are attending.
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Sometimes, even though we are aware that the person's behavior is constrained by situational factors, we still commit the fundamentalattributionerror.
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While similar, the ultimateattributionerrordescribes how prejudiced individuals rationalize their intergroup perceptions.
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Many other studies have been published using the ultimateattributionerroras a theoretical foundation.
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This tendency to draw different conclusions between in-groups and out-groups reflects a connection between groupattributionerrorand ultimateattributionerror.
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Fundamentalattributionerroroccurs when people wrongly attribute either a shortcoming or accomplishment to internal or external factors, when in fact the inverse is true.
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Additionally, there are many different types of attribution biases, such as the ultimateattributionerror, fundamentalattributionerror, actor-observer bias, and hostile attribution bias.
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Victim proneness or victim blaming can be a form of fundamentalattributionerror, and more specifically, the "just-world phenomenon".
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Scholars classify the erroneous assumptions as the fundamentalattributionerror.
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The negativity effect plays a role in producing the fundamentalattributionerror, a major contributor to prejudice.
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