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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

religiosity, correspondence bias, fundamental attribution error, interpersonal judgement

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Psychology

Abstract

Correspondence bias, also known as the fundamental attribution error, is the tendency for an observer to overestimate an actor’s personal responsibility for behavior and underestimate situational influences. In other words, a perceiver is generally biased to infer that behavior corresponds to an underlying personal disposition of an actor rather than the constraints of the environment. This phenomenon is a robust area of study in clinical and social psychology (Jones, 1990). However, some research has found there are moderating factors of correspondence bias. For example, D’Agostino and Fincher-Kiefer (1992) conducted a study investigating the relationship between cognitive style and the tendency to make correspondence bias error. They found that participants high in the need for cognition were less likely to make erroneous judgments than those low in the need for cognition.

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