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Well, of course people shouldn't take many of these things personally. What he describes is just slightly modified actor-observer bias (or asymmetry), a well-un
by hobin 15y ago
Well, of course people shouldn't take many of these things personally. What he describes is just slightly modified actor-observer bias (or asymmetry), a well-understood phenomenon in psychology.
(For those who had not yet heard of the term, Wikipedia has an article on it that seems to explain the concept well enough: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor-observer_bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor-observer_bias)
- hobin 15y agoI made a slight mistake there. I meant fundamental attribution error, not actor-observer bias.