FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTION ERROR:
The fundamental attribution error refers to an individual’s tendency to attribute another’s actions to “their character” or personality, while attributing “your own” behavior to external factors outside of control.
In other words, you tend to cut yourself a break while holding others “100 percent accountable” for their actions.
For instance, if you’ve ever chastised a “lazy employee” for being late to a meeting, and then proceeded to make an excuse for being late yourself that same day, you’ve made the fundamental attribution error.
The fundamental attribution error exists because of how people perceive the world. While you have at least some idea of your character, motivations, and situational factors that affect your day-to-day, you never know everything that’s going on with someone else. Similar to confirmation and overconfidence biases, it’s impact on life can be reduced by taking several measures.
FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTION ERROR EXAMPLES
It’s clear to see how the fundamental attribution error (FAE) can impact your personal life, but it’s important to recognize the influence it can have on your work, as well. Whether you’re an employee or manager, cognitive biases, like the FAE, can play a role in how you interact with others in the workplace and how you make key business decisions.
In working with your colleagues, for example, you probably form a general impression of their character based on pieces of a situation, but never see the whole picture. While it would be nice to give them the benefit of the doubt, your brain tends to use limited information to “make judgments”.
Within organizations, FAE can cause everything from arguments to ruptures in organizational culture. In fact, it’s at the root of any misunderstanding in which human motivations have the potential to be misinterpreted.
COGNITIVE_DISSONANCE
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..::”When a human harbors the intention to HARM another… a powerful factor comes into play: the need to “JUSTIFY” the attack… Once the “attacker” justifies the attack and starts down a path of labeling and blaming the victim, he/she becomes likely to obsess about psychologically attacking their victim with even GREATER ferocity the next chance they get… [in order to justify the ego’s preservation, “to be RIGHT”]
aka: “COGNITIVE DISSONANCE”
also see: Schaden-Freude
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via book By Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
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https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/the-fundamental-attribution-error
https://empathymatters.org/now/fundamental-attribution-error/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVLpdzhcU0g
..::”Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of people who are oppressing them.
We Think We Listen, but that might be a thought!
https://empathymatters.org/now/active-listening-carl-rogers/
Understanding this could greatly reduce human suffering.
“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the seed of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is already dead. ~Albert Einstein”Refusing humility traps you in delusion.♡ Love Albert Einstein … Only a comic book bible would suggest a cultish behavior to genoc~~ everyone else, but some special chosen ones? OMG
Imagine living on a planet where the rich get richer by indoctrinating the people to follow ancient dogma, repeating an ancient doctrine of genocide projected onto innocent children, again and again, the rich get richer, and the children receive brutal indoctrination instead of Living Their Sacred Free & Joyful Life.
Secret History: How Evil Triumphs:
