dispositional attribution

When observers are relatively calm, the tendency towards dispositional attribution is less strong.

Outside observers were able to predict the subjects' responses; but, you know this would be a dispositional attribution (see Nisbett).

In general, people tend to make dispositional attributions more often than situational attributions when trying to explain or understand a person's behavior.

Another term for dispositional attribution is internal attribution.

This tendency towards dispositional attribution is especially magnified when the stakes are higher and the situation is more complex.

Humans attempt to explain the actions of others through either dispositional attribution or situational attribution.

But there has been little discussion of how people may choose among competing dispositional attributions (is this person friendly or ingratiating?)

Dispositionalism is the general tendency to prefer dispositional attribution rather than situational attribution.

Dispositional attribution is a tendency to attribute people's behaviors to their dispositions; that is, to their personality, character, and ability.

The results of the experiment favor situational attribution of behavior rather than dispositional attribution (a result caused by internal characteristics).

Instead of looking at situational attributions, personality psychology evaluates a person with dispositional attributions, making the false-consensus effect relatively irrelevant in that domain.

Therefore, the customer made dispositional attribution by attributing the waiter's behavior directly to his/her personality rather than considering situational factors that might have caused the whole "rudeness".

Dispositional attribution, also referred to as internal attribution, attempts to point to a person's traits, abilities, motives, or dispositions as a cause or explanation for their actions.

In particular, elementary school students are more likely to make dispositional attributions when their friends perform positive behaviors, but situational attributions when disliked peers perform positive behaviors.

When trying to persuade others to like us or another person, we tend to explain positive behaviors and accomplishments with dispositional attribution, but our own negative behaviors and shortcomings with situational attributions.

A citizen criticizing a president by saying the nation is lacking economic progress and health because the president is either lazy or lacking in economic intuition is utilizing a dispositional attribution.

An important and related area to impression formation is the study of person perception, which refers to the process of observing behavior, making dispositional attributions, and then adjusting those inferences based on the information available.

Dispositional attribution is the explanation of individual behavior as a result caused by internal characteristics that reside within the individual, as opposed to external (situational) influences that stem from the environment or culture in which that individual is found.

Richard Nisbett has argued that some attributional biases like the fundamental attribution error are instances of the base rate fallacy: people do not use the "consensus information" (the "base rate") about how others behaved in similar situations and instead prefer simpler dispositional attributions.