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Psychology B&nb= sp;        =

 

Interpersonal Perception – Attributional Reasoning

 

 

Internal and External Factors=

 

 

Do you agree with St= orms (1973), that we often attribute our successes to internal factors and our failures to external factors?

 

Working in small gro= ups, try to find three examples where you (or others, e.g. in the media) may behave = in this way. Did you realise that you were doing it at the time, and if so, wh= y do you think you did it?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

= If we do have a ‘self-serving bias’, why might this be? Is this necessarily a bad thing?