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What are attribution biases and when do they occur? Attribution theories such as Kelley's co variation model tended to suggest that laypeople act like psychologists, trying to produce rational explanations for other people's behaviour. In fact, everyday attributions do not always conform to such exacting scientific standards. These traditional accounts can therefore be taken as normative models which describe how people ought to explain behaviour given unlimited time and resources rather than how they actually do explain events under normal circumstances. When judgements deviate systematically from these standards, attribution is said to be biased. The correspondence bias "The correspondence bias ... is the tendency to conclude that a person has a disposition that corresponds to his or her behavior even when that behavior is attributable to the situation" (Gilbert, 1995, p. 105). When explaining actions, observers seem to believe that its causes are more likely to be found in the actor's...

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