co-variation

Co-variation

The view that in deciding whether an action should be attributed to an actors internal disposition or to the external situation, three factors are taken into account:

distinctiveness: the extent to which the action is restricted to that situation;
consensus: the proportion of people who behave in the manner of interest in that situation;
consistency: the frequency with which actors perform the action in other situations.

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