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Explain two Attributional Biases There is much evidence that we tend to attribute our own behaviour to the situation and others to their dispositions. This has come to be known as the fundamental attribution error (FAE) or the correspondence bias. The FAE has been subject to a considerable amount of investigation. Ross (1977) set up a quiz show, in which participants were randomly given the role of questioner or contestant. Although both observers and participants knew that the roles had been randomly assigned, they still rated the questioner as being more knowledgeable than the contestant was. This meant they were ignoring situational variables such as the fact that the questioner had free choice of subject, and so could choose questions from their own specialist knowledge, whereas the contestants had no such choice. It has been suggested that the FAE might arise simply because we take a different perspective on the...

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