George Quattrone conjectured that this phenomenon depended on the relative salience of situations in an 1982 experiment.
In an experiment observing this phenomenon, half of a group of students were assigned roles as quizmasters and told to ask a series of ten questions to the other half, who rated the quizmasters' knowledge as above average. George Quattrone conjectured that this phenomenon depended on the relative salience of situations in an 1982 experiment. Lee Ross coined the term for this phenomenon, which is closely related to the actor-observer (*) bias. The premier study of this phenomenon involved people reading essays about Fidel Castro and rating the author's attitude as positive towards Castro even though they had been told that the writer's position was determined by a coin flip. For 10 points, name this phenomenon in which a person's behavior is blamed on dispositional and personal factors rather than exterior circumstances, a kind of cognitive bias.
In an experiment observing this phenomenon, half of a group of students were assigned roles as quizmasters and told to ask a series of ten questions to the other half, who rated the quizmasters' knowledge as above average.
fundamental attribution error [or correspondence bias]