Why you're so judgemental 👀

2023-06-12 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:56 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Mindset, motivation and happiness · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: Evidence-based framing

In a Short, Ali explains the fundamental attribution error: we put our own mistakes down to circumstances and others' to their character, and relays the psychologist Lee Ross's advice to credit outside factors in our successes and not blame ourselves too quickly for failures.

What is said

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00:00:00 — The fundamental attribution error and Lee Ross's advice

• ★★★ Ali says the fundamental attribution error explains why people can be judgemental: if someone else runs a red light we think they are a bad driver, but if we do it we blame a split-second decision and the circumstances. — 00:00:00
• ★★ Ali says that when we succeed we credit our own intelligence and hard work and blame our mistakes on external factors such as a bad day, but explain other people's strengths by context and their weaknesses by their personality. — 00:00:00
• ★★ Ali says we tend to believe that what people do reflects who they are, which is not always the case. — 00:00:29
• ★★ Lee Ross (quoted): The psychologist Lee Ross, who coined the term attribution error, thinks we should acknowledge factors outside our control when explaining our successes and not be quick to blame failures on our own faults, Ali relays. — 00:00:29

Mentioned

Central: fundamental attribution error

Also: Lee Ross

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