Situational Attribution Erro

The surroundings an environment plays an important role toward peoples actions and believes. The society we leave in is more complex than people imagine. It is people’s reasonability to make assumptions and interpret situation in the most unbiased and appropriate way we can. It is so easy to make assumption about people based on looks and behaviors rather than situations influencing them. As we get to know people we also learn how they act daily and then in believes they have. People also learn to know when their friends are having a bad day or something is bothering them and from there how to interact with them based in their moods. We could also say it is normal to interpret people’s behaviors in the wrong way when we can see beyond the actual actions. The purpose of this paper is to explain what the fundamental attribution …show more content…
Most people tend to interpret the behavior of others in a way of believing people are the way they act. In many cases this reality might not be true because of other factors might be influencing how people act and express themselves in a particular situation. As humans’ being it is in our nature to make assumptions about people simply by what they are saying and how they are acting in a particular situation rather than looking at the circumstances why people are acting such a way. Supposed you see someone in the hospital and they give an unfriendly “hello” and then walks away and you assume that person is a jerk you have made that fundamental attribution error. What if the person was having the worst day of his life or he/she was worried about something important. Usually people do not think about those events and make an easy assumption about the person actions. There is more to take into consideration in daily life events to avoid making the fundamental attribution