Fundamental Attribution Error

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Fundamental Attribution Error Fundamental Attribution Error can be considered as labeling someone or their behaviors by stereotypes or without any accurate information about their experiences. It is something we encounter quite often in our daily lives. People judge and criticize each other by some ideas in their head. To be completely fair, everybody experiences fundamental attribution error in his or her daily lives. Even ourselves do, but we don’t really notice that we do. Most common time we do this is when we meet new people or simply talk to other people. Since we cannot know what someone has been through at that moment we judge them based on how they talk and how they act at the time. To give an example from my own life, me and a friend of mine were sitting at the school and she was so quiet that day, first I thought I offended her in some way or even she was upset with me but later on she told me she was sorry for frowning all day and said she argued with her parents and that we were ok. At that time I misjudged her actions and believed something out of my imagination. Examples like this and many more occur in our lives commonly, but we’re not always aware of it. To clear up, another example would be that when I went to my friends house she was yelling at everyone and she was acting really angry, I thought she was being really rude, careless and disrespectful but later on I learned that her mother has been in the hospital the night before so she was exhausted and worried for her. Fundamental attribution error is a part of our lives, which we experience by not having empathy or simply, by having misjudgemental
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