Actor Observer Bias based on personality traits

Attribution refers to the process by which a person infers other people’s motives or intentions by observing and analyzing their behaviour (Lefton, 2000). The theory that explains this process is labeled attribution theory, which is concerned with how and why ordinary people explain events (Hewstone, 1983). Although one might acknowledge when ordinary people explain events there must be room for error, the tendency to focus on the role of personal causes and underestimate the impact of situations on other people’s behaviour (Brehm, Kassin & Fein, 2002), this is called the fundamental attribution error.

Edward Jones and Richard Nisbett (1972) were the first social psychologist to describe what has proved to be a pervasive error in the attribution process. They noticed that people as “actors”, when judging their own actions tend to describe their behaviour as being caused by external situational events (Hewstone, 1983), such as nature of task, and other people (Brehm, Kassin & Fein, 2002). On the other hand, when they as “observers” judge the actions of others they tend to describe the action as being caused by internal dispositional factors (Hew

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