Fundamental Attribution Error Analysis

The fundamental attribution

The fundamental attribution error plays a main part in our everyday lives. The fundamental attribution error is the propensity for viewers to undervalue situational effects and overestimate dispositional impacts upon other's actions. In short terms, when a person's behavior is improper, we have a tendency to automatically jump to the assumption that the person has a bad behavior, they're mean, rude, etc. Not often do we look at the condition that the person may be in whether it's work or personal related. In every occasion, there is always cause and effect. Numerous times in misattributions, the reason of a person's behavior is misjudged.

As I observe, I've seen a co-worker who not once said much at work, and always strolled around looking unhappy. This co-worker would not help out much either when it was her turn to clean. I start to think that this person was lazy and would stare at the co-worker with mean glares. When I learned more about my co-worker condition, he was established as depressed; I start to reason of what may have initiated the depression. Work had a huge effect on his behavior, and the way I thought of him was wrong. I ignored his situational impact and miscalculated his effect. I say sorry on the inside, and no longer extensively looked at that person in that way. This changed how I see on people.

Bystander Effect

There is one question that has certainly thought of most Americans in their life, and remains to outbreak the whole country. Should I just walk away or should I help? What I am discussing to be something psychologists have named the Bystander Effect. The bystander effect is well-defined as such: the more people’s desires help, the less likely any of them is to give help....

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...on groups. He expected that the group of three would tug three times as much as one person, and group of eight would tug eight times as much as one person. He came to the assumption that more people in the group may be better for a total output, but the individual’s output of each group member drops. I completely agree that social loafers do exist and most of us do go through social loafing. The reason of social loafing came from other group members not doing what they're supposed to and let the other members of the group do it for them. It could be because they're being lazy, and it reduces their effort. Another option is that because the outcome of the group cannot be accredited to any single person, the group’s output and the individual input cannot be even out. This is when an individual becomes an unrestricted because the person’s effectiveness will be reduced.