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The attribution of attitudes

Jones, Edward E, Harris, Victor A·1967·Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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“Both students and professors seem to be making what Ross (1977) referred to as the fundamental attribution error and what Jones and Harris (1967) called a correspondence bias; that is, seeking an explanation for some psychological phenomenon in terms of personal dispositions and underestimating the influence of situat…”
Beyond unsustainable leadership: critical social theory for sustainable leadership
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Information repetition in evaluative judgments: Easy to monitor, hard to control
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“…an initial surprise because people tend to over-attribute ''freedom'' to agents more generally; for example, participants spontaneously attribute internal traits to individuals who are instructed by the experimenter to write counter-attitudinal essays (Jones & Harris, 1967; Snyder & Jones, 1974).”
Background
Jurors’ discussions of a defendant’s history of child abuse and alcohol abuse in capital sentencing deliberations.
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Videotaped confessions: Is guilt in the eye of the camera?
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“For example, people tend to take behavior as indicative of people’s intention and disposition, and to under-weigh the impact of the situation on the behavior (Jones and Harris, 1967; Ross, 1977).”
The Effect of Real Earnings Management on Auditor Scrutiny of Management's Other Financial Reporting Decisions
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“CIT posits that observers draw inferences about another individual’s disposition (e.g., integrity, aggressiveness) based on the characteristics of the behavior exhibited by that individual (Jones and Davis 1965; Jones and Harris 1967; Ajzen and Holmes 1976).”
Background
Psychology of Aid
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Debunking Biased Thinkers (Including Ourselves)
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Employee performance and abusive supervision: The role of supervisor over‐attributions
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The perceptual and inferential effects of situational inducements on dispositional attribution.
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Internal states or external stimuli: Observers' attitude judgments and the dissonance-theory-self-persuasion controversy
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Attribution theory and the novel
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Self-enhancement and belief perseverance
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“Please cite this article in press as: Guenther, C. L., & Alicke, M. D mental Social Psychology (2007), doi:10.”
Method
Diversity in Organizations and Cross-Cultural Work Psychology: What If They Were More Connected?
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“The findings were so compelling that the bias was termed the ‘‘fundamental attribution error’’ (Jones & Harris, 1967).”
Background
How do journalists think?: a proposal for the study of cognitive bias in newsmaking
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Authors: Jones, E. E., & Harris, V. A.
Affiliations: Duke University (US)
Venue: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 1967-01
Volume: 3
Issue: 1
Pages: 1-24
ISSN: 0022-1031 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/0022-1031(67)90034-0
OpenAlex: W2103278175
Cited by: 1,783
References: 12
Citations by year: 2026: 31 · 2025: 30 · 2024: 44 · 2023: 42 · 2022: 54 · 2021: 53 · 2020: 66 · 2019: 70 · 2018: 117 · 2017: 52 · 2016: 67 · 2015: 77 · 2014: 61 · 2013: 63 · 2012: 82
FWCI: 20.57
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychology of Social Influence
Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
Keywords: attitude attribution, prior probability, situational constraints, reference groups

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