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Fundamental Attribution error Mistakenly explaining actions in terms of factors intrinsic to the person rather than in terms of the person's external situation – a bias affecting actors’ attempts to determine the causes of other people’s behaviour.
Pursuant to mitigating the bias we should keep in mind that:
(see also: Co-variation, Actor-Observer difference, cognitive bias, motivational bias, schema, metacognitive shortfall, regressive fallacy, Self-serving bias)
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