The Ultimate Attribution Error

Pettigrew, T. F. (1979). The Ultimate Attribution Error: Extending Allport’s Cognitive Analysis of Prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 5(4), 461-476.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1979

DOI

10.1177/014616727900500407

Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/014616727900500407

Cited from

psychology, sociology_anthropology

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Ethnocentrism
  • The ultimate-attribution-error literature

    This sourceIdentifies the systematic tendency to attribute negative out-group behavior to disposition and positive in-group behavior to situation (and vice versa), creating self-reinforcing ethnocentric causal interpretations.

• Fundamental Attribution Error
  • Mixed evidence suggests both mechanisms operate in different contexts (Pettigrew 1979

    This sourceProposes the intergroup 'ultimate attribution error' (out-group negative acts attributed dispositionally, in-group situationally); supports D17-067's intergroup-attribution point.

Domain-specific

• Ultimate Attribution Error
  • The mirror pattern favors the ingroup: positive acts reveal character, while negative acts are explained by circumstance.

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