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  2. Fundamental attribution error - Wikipedia

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    Since situations are undeniably complex and are of different "strengths", this will interact with an individual's disposition and determine what kind of attribution is made; although some amount of attribution can consistently be allocated to disposition, the way in which this is balanced with situational attribution will be dependent on the ...

  3. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    Abilene paradox – False consensus due to communication failure; Affective forecasting – Predicting someone's future emotions (affect) Anecdotal evidence – Evidence relying on personal testimony; Attribution (psychology) – Process by which individuals explain causes of behavior and events

  4. False attribution - Wikipedia

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    False attribution may refer to: Misattribution in general, when a quotation or work is accidentally, traditionally, or based on bad information attributed to the wrong person or group A specific fallacy where an advocate appeals to an irrelevant, unqualified, unidentified, biased, or fabricated source in support of an argument.

  5. Naïve realism (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    These include the false consensus effect, actor–observer bias, bias blind spot, and fundamental attribution error, among others. The term, as it is used in psychology today, was coined by social psychologist Lee Ross and his colleagues in the 1990s.

  6. List of fallacies - Wikipedia

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    False attribution – appealing to an irrelevant, unqualified, unidentified, biased or fabricated source in support of an argument. Fallacy of quoting out of context (contextotomy, contextomy; quotation mining) – selective excerpting of words from their original context to distort the intended meaning.

  7. Attribution bias - Wikipedia

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    Attribution (psychology) – Process by which individuals explain causes of behavior and events; Fallacy of the single cause – Assumption of a single cause where multiple factors may be necessary; Causality – How one process influences another; Cognitive dissonance – Stress from contradiction between beliefs and actions

  8. Reification (fallacy) - Wikipedia

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    Pathetic fallacy (also known as anthropomorphic fallacy or anthropomorphization) is a specific type [dubious – discuss] of reification. Just as reification is the attribution of concrete characteristics to an abstract idea, a pathetic fallacy is committed when those characteristics are specifically human characteristics, especially thoughts or feelings. [13]

  9. Egocentric bias - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, the false-consensus effect, or the tendency to deduce judgements from one's own opinions, is a direct result of egocentric bias. [14] A well known example of false-consensus effect is a study published by Ross, Greene and House in 1977. [15] Students are asked to walk around a campus with a sandwich board that bearing the word "repent".