The actor-observer asymmetry in attribution¶
Malle. (2006). The actor-observer asymmetry in attribution: A (surprising) meta-analysis.
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Domain-specific¶
- Self-Serving Bias
- The same agents typically apply the opposite default when attributing outcomes to others, tending to attribute others' failures to internal causes and others' successes to luck or context — the actor-observer asymmetry that is the social mirror image of self-serving bias
This sourceMeta-analysis finding the classic actor-observer asymmetry to be near zero overall, which is why the other-directed default described here cannot be identified with it.
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“The actor-observer hypothesis (E. E. Jones & R. E. Nisbett, 1971) states that people tend to explain their own behavior with situation causes and other people's behavior with person causes.”
- The same agents typically apply the opposite default when attributing outcomes to others, tending to attribute others' failures to internal causes and others' successes to luck or context — the actor-observer asymmetry that is the social mirror image of self-serving bias
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