Attribution:
The process of attribution is where we simply attribute one's behavior to internal disposition or external situations. We may try to link someones behavior or why they do the things they do because of something in their personality or because of something that is taking place in their life. For example, we may think that our friend is being irritable towards us not because she is like that all the time, but because something is happening in her personal life to make her become that way. She may have had a fight with someone close to her, had a bad hair day, flat tire, or any of the above to make her that way. That is the process of attribution, just our ability to link why someone is being the way they are.
The fundamental attribution error is the overestimation of the influence of personality and underestimating their influence of situation.
Stereotyping:
Stereotypes are when we generalize a belief about a certain group of people. For example, blondes are dumb, skaters are burnouts, all those which a group is associated. Illusory correlations are when people tend to overestimate a link between 2 variables and the correlation is slight or not at all. examples of this is, the team won the game because they prayed beforehand, wearing his lucky socks made him run faster, all things like that where there is a link associated, but no actual proof made. This is how stereotypes are made. One time can lead to a stereotype and belief for down the road. In turn they both work slightly the same.
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