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The Actor-Observer Bias
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The actor-observer bias is the tendency to explain one's own behavior situationally and others' behavior dispositionally.
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A person late to a meeting cites traffic and judges the next latecomer as careless.
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The asymmetry comes partly from information. We see our own situations and only others' behavior.