#psychology #bias #fallacy #lizard-brain
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We attribute people's behavior to disposition rather than situation.
Disposition: We explain ourselves the behavior of others through fundamental character traits, with no other data points that our observation.
Situation: We neglect the power of circumstance onto how people behave.
Someone who cuts into a line in front of you. You might think, “What a jerk,” when in reality this person has never skipped ahead in a line before and is doing so now only because he would otherwise miss a flight to see a dying relative
Clerics and criminals rarely face an identical or equivalent set of situational challenges. Rather, they place themselves, and are placed by others, in situations that differ precisely in ways that induce clergy to look, act, feel, and think rather consistently like clergy and that induce criminals to look, act, feel, and think like criminals.
~ Ross and Nisbett
People's intention can be worlds apart from what we observe