The ‘Ultimate Attribution Error’? A Review of the Literature on Intergroup Causal Attribution

Hewstone, M. (1990). The ‘Ultimate Attribution Error’? A Review of the Literature on Intergroup Causal Attribution. European Journal of Social Psychology, 20(4), 311-335.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1990

Volume

20

Issue

4

Pages

311-335

DOI

10.1002/ejsp.2420200404

DOI registrant

Wiley

Link

https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2420200404

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• Ultimate Attribution Error
  • Later review found an overall tendency toward ingroup-favoring intergroup attributions but only limited support for all details of the original formulation, so this node presents a testable pattern rather than an exceptionless law.

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