The fundamental attribution error: A phenomenological critique

Langdridge, Darren; Butt, Trevor

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“…The fundamental attribution error refers to the tendency to attribute another person's behavior to that person's dispositional qualities (e.g. their personality or inherent nature) rather than to situational variables (Langdridge & Butt, 2004;Ross, 1977). The fundamental attribution error may lead jury members to uncritically accept confessions and to be unable to discount confessions even when they are known to have been obtained through coercive interrogation tactics (Kassin & Gudjonsson, 2004, p. 56).…”

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A survey of people's attitudes and beliefs about false confessions

Henkel

Coffman

Dailey

2008

Behavioral Sci & The Law

104

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The attitudes and beliefs of jury eligible individuals regarding false confessions were investigated in order to uncover potential biases. Survey respondents provided perceptions of factors related to false confessions (e.g. their frequency and likely situational and dispositional risk variables). Results indicate that people possess an awareness that false confessions can occur and believe that a confession should not be taken as an absolute indicator of guilt. However, their understanding of predisposing and situational factors that contribute to false confessions was incomplete, as was their understanding of interrogation practices. Furthermore, respondents showed a marked bias against believing that they personally would ever falsely confess, which is discussed in the context of potential inconsistencies between people's self-report and their actual behaviors in naturalistic situations.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A survey of people's attitudes and beliefs about false confessions

Henkel

Coffman

Dailey

2008

Behavioral Sci & The Law

104

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“…This phenomenon has been discussed extensively in social psychology (see e.g. Langdridge & Butt, 2004). Whereas most interviewees recognized that unmet expectations were often caused by language barriers, the impression that their counterpart was not true to his or her word still lingered.…”

Section: Language-based Attributions Of Low Dependability and Their Imentioning

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The impact of language barriers on trust formation in multinational teams

2013

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AcknowledgementsWe thank Sebastian Reiche for his helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript. We are very grateful for the constructive and thoughtful guidance by special issue editors Rebecca Piekkari and Mary Yoko Brannen, as well as three anonymous reviewers. MNTs in three German automotive corporations, we show how MNT members' cognitive and emotional reactions to language barriers influence their perceived trustworthiness and intention to trust, which in turn affect trust formation. We contribute to diversity research by distinguishing the exclusively negative language effects from the more ambivalent effects of other diversity dimensions. Our findings also illustrate how surface-level language diversity may create perceptions of deep-level diversity.Furthermore, our study advances MNT research by revealing the specific influences of language barriers on team trust, an important mediator between team inputs and performance outcomes. It thereby encourages the examination of other team processes through a language lens. Finally, our study suggests that multilingual settings necessitate a reexamination and modification of the seminal trust theories by Mayer, Schoorman (1995) andMcAllister (1995). In terms of practical implications, we outline how MNT leaders can manage their subordinates' problematic reactions to language barriers and how MNT members can enhance their perceived trustworthiness in multilingual settings.

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“…Moreover, since this research was conducted, it is not only the social and economic landscape of the UK which has changed -social psychological approaches to attribution and explanation have also evolved (see e.g. Antaki, 1994;Langdridge & Butt, 2004). Notwithstanding the merits of Furnham's work, it is vulnerable to the general re-specification of attribution outlined by Discursive Psychologists insofar as it neglects the fundamentally constructive and action-oriented nature of discourse (cf.…”

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The effortful citizen: Discursive social psychology and welfare reform

Gibson

2009

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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The present study applies a broadly discursive approach to the representation of welfare reform and unemployment through an analysis of the deployment of an interpretative repertoire of effortfulness in posts to an internet discussion forum. It is argued that when posters construct versions of unemployed people or welfare recipients as characterized by ‘laziness’ or lack of ‘effort’ the attribution of responsibility for unemployment is frequently not the only piece of discursive business being attended to. In addition, posters attend to issues of their own accountability and, significantly, the accountability of the government or welfare system itself for the extent to which welfare recipients are formally held to account. It is argued that this approach extends previous social psychological work on the explanation of unemployment insofar as it pays attention to the context‐specific functions performed by such explanations. Moreover, in orienting to the welfare system as having a responsibility to hold welfare recipients to account, posters are drawing on a set of discursive resources which essentially treat the government of individual psychology as a legitimate function of the welfare system. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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The fundamental attribution error: A phenomenological critique

Cited by 34 publications

References 52 publications

A survey of people's attitudes and beliefs about false confessions

A survey of people's attitudes and beliefs about false confessions

The impact of language barriers on trust formation in multinational teams

The effortful citizen: Discursive social psychology and welfare reform

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