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Fundamental Attribution Error
“Someone answers sharply. Do you see their character first, or the day they are navigating?”
01 / SUMMARY
In short
When explaining another person's behavior, people may overvalue personal dispositions and undervalue situational pressure. The balance changes across cultures, contexts, and levels of information.
03 / SCENE
In the wild
A customer reads a server's haste as rudeness without seeing that she is covering a full room alone.
04 / LIMIT
The limit
It does not say traits never matter or that every culture makes attributions in the same way.
FINAL NOTE
What remains
Before deciding what someone “is like,” identify the constraints, incentives, and visible alternatives in that scene.