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*** Such different portraits of white and non-white Americans' grievances have their origins in what social psychologists call "ultimate attribution error". This error means that when whites struggle, their troubles are generally attributed to situational forces (e.g., outsourcing); but when non-whites struggle, their plight is more often attributed to dispositional traits (i.e., poor work ethic).
Ultimate attribution error.
Generalisations or stereotypes such as "women can't do maths" or "Americans don't have a sense of humour" also rely on an invented essence of a sex, or of a nationality, a term that some psychologists have called ultimate attribution error.
Such different portraits of white and non-white Americans' grievances have their origins in what social psychologists call "ultimate attribution error".
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Clarke further suggested that the ultimate reason people make the fundamental attribution error is because they have evolved to do so.
But this perception probably reflects what psychologists call "the fundamental attribution error" — our tendency to ignore context and attribute an individual's success or failure solely to inherent qualities.
The fundamental attribution error (FAE) refers to the predisposition for people to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional characteristics, rather than situational causes external to the individual.
Fundamental attribution error.
a. Fundamental attribution error b.
This phenomenon is known as the fundamental attribution error.
"Attribution error" provides one plausible explanation for this phenomenon.
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