The History and Scope of Psychology Module 1

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Attributing Behavior to Persons or to Situations

Attribution Theory: Fritz Heider (1958) suggested that we have a tendency to give causal explanations for someone’s behavior, often by crediting either the situation or the person’s disposition.

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Fritz Heider


	OBJECTIVE 55-2\| Contrast dispositional and situational attributions, and explain how the fundamental attribution error can affect our analysis of behavior.