Demonstrating the Correspondence Bias

Autor/inn/en	Howell, Jennifer L.; Shepperd, James A.
Titel	Demonstrating the Correspondence Bias
Quelle	In: Teaching of Psychology, 38 (2011) 4, S.243-246 (4 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0098-6283
DOI	10.1177/0098628311421320
Schlagwörter	Textbooks; Social Cognition; Social Psychology; Social Sciences; Undergraduate Students; Pretests Posttests; Teaching Methods; Student Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Soziale Kognition; Sozialpsychologie; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Schülerverhalten
Abstract	Among the best-known and most robust biases in person perception is the correspondence bias--the tendency for people to make dispositional, rather than situational, attributions for an actor's behavior. The correspondence bias appears in virtually every social psychology textbook and in many introductory psychology textbooks, yet the authors' experience with teaching this bias is that students sometimes fail to recognize when they display it. Students also sometimes struggle with distinguishing it from the actor-observer effect, which in addition to the correspondence bias includes a tendency for actors to make situational attributions for their own behavior, and from the self-serving bias, which is the tendency for an actor to make internal attributions for personal successes and external attributions for personal failures. The authors describe a classroom-based demonstration of the correspondence bias. The demonstration is memorable, effective, takes roughly 5 minutes, and produced improvement in understanding of the bias. (Contains 2 tables.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10