Our behaviors are influenced by different factors that people often try to deduct as internal or external. When we attempt to explain the cause of people’s behaviors, it is called attribution and the two different kinds of attributions we generate are situational and dispositional attribution. (Text, p.406) Situational attribution are related to outside forces influencing a person’s behavior. In contrast, dispositional attribution indicate that it is a person’s character that was the source of their behavior. For instance, when Mary’s finance came to visit the family but his actions were forced and was understood as annoying. Mary’s aunt used correspondence bias to evaluate Mary’s fiancé’s behavior during his first meeting with the family by
