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The Fundamental Attribution Error
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The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to overestimate personal causes and underestimate situational ones when explaining others' behavior.
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A driver who cuts across a lane is judged reckless rather than possibly responding to an emergency.
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The error is weaker in collectivist cultural contexts, which is evidence it is partly learned.