Attribution Processes and Biases

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Attribution Processes and Biases
  1. Key Concepts
    1. Social Cognition

      Anmerkungen:

      • How we process and store social information and how this affects how we perceive others' behaviour
      1. Attribution

        Anmerkungen:

        • Process of assigning a cause to you own and others' behaviour. Why we behave the way we do.
        1. Causal attributes

          Anmerkungen:

          • An inference process through which perceivers attribute and effect to one or more causes
      2. 7 Theories of Attribution
        1. Theory of naive psychology Heider,1958

          Anmerkungen:

          • People are intuitive psychologists who construct causal theories of human behaviour and because it is the same form as systematic scientific social psychological theories, they are actually naive psychologists. Based on 3 principles...
          • 1) The need to form a coherent view of the world.  Because our own behaviour is motivated not random we look for causes in others in order to discover their motives
          • 2) The need to gain control over the environment Because we construct these causal attributes in order to predict and control the environment we tend to look for stable and enduring properties of the world that cause behaviour.
          • 3) The need to identify internal vs. external factors Personal factors - internal (dispositional) attribution. The process of assigning the causes of our behaviour to internal factors. Environmental factors - external (situational) attribution.The process of assigning the causes of our behaviour to external factors.
          1. Theory of correspondent inference Jones and Davis, 1963

            Anmerkungen:

            • This theory explains that the cause of behaviours is due to and underlying disposition e.g. a friendly action is caused by the underlying disposition to be friendly. People often like do make these attributions about others because it is a stable cause that makes behaviour predictable.
            1. Co-variation Model Kelley, 1967

              Anmerkungen:

              • Kelly argues we try to act like scientists by identifying what factor co-varies most closely to the behaviour and then assigning the factor a causal role. Sometimes referred to as the ANOVA model (Analysis of Variance). People use this model to attach internal (personality) or external (social pressure) reasons to the cause of behaviour.
              1. Theory of emotional liability Schachter, 1964
                1. Theory of self perception Ben, 1967
                  1. Attribution Theory Weiner, 1979

                    Anmerkungen:

                    • Causality of Success or Failure: Locus Stability Controllability
                    1. Intergroup Perspective Deschamp et al., 1980s
                    2. False Consensus
                      1. Attributional Biases

                        Anmerkungen:

                        • Systematic errors indicative of shortcuts, gut feelings and intuition
                        1. Correspondance Bias
                        2. Ross et al. (1977)

                          Anmerkungen:

                          • People make clear dispositional attribution errors even when there are clear environmental/external causes.
                          • Asked students if they would walk around campus advertising minimum wage. The students who said yes believed that everyone else would do the same.
                          1. Why?
                            1. Self-esteem maintenance
                              1. Salience of our own opinion
                                1. We are generally friends with people similar to ourselves
                                2. Actor-Observer Bias Jones and Nesbitt (1972)
                                  1. Internal

                                    Anmerkungen:

                                    • A shop-assistant is rude to you... They are a rude person ro simply stressed?
                                    1. External

                                      Anmerkungen:

                                      • You are rude to a shop-assistant... you are a rude person or simply stressed?
                                    2. Self-serving Bias Olsen and Ross (1988)

                                      Anmerkungen:

                                      • Success - I am smart Failure - It was a bad paper Split into self-enhancing and self-protecting biases. Why? Expectations of self-esteem, maintain positive self identity
                                    3. Heuristics - Cognitive shortcuts
                                      1. Types
                                        1. Availability Heuristics

                                          Anmerkungen:

                                          • Judge frequency or probability of events by how easy it is to think of examples (memory accessibility)
                                          1. Representative Heuristic

                                            Anmerkungen:

                                            • Categorise based on similarity between instance and prototypical category members. E.g people from a location, similar to stereotype
                                            1. Anchoring and Adjustment Heuristsic

                                              Anmerkungen:

                                              • Starting point (or initial standard) influences subsequent judgements.
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