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  2. False attribution - Wikipedia

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    For example, the "Levitt Institute" was a fake organisation created in 2009 solely for the purposes of (successfully) fooling the Australian media into reporting that Sydney was Australia’s most naive city. [3] Contextomy (quoting out of context) is a type of false attribution. [4]

  3. Fundamental attribution error - Wikipedia

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    Several theories predict the fundamental attribution error, and thus both compete to explain it, and can be falsified if it does not occur. Some examples include: Just-world fallacy. The belief that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get, the concept of which was first theorized by Melvin J. Lerner in 1977. [11]

  4. 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.

  5. Attribution bias - Wikipedia

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    Hostile attribution bias (HAB) has been defined as an interpretive bias wherein individuals exhibit a tendency to interpret others' ambiguous behaviors as hostile, rather than benign. [7] [8] For example, if a child witnesses two other children whispering, they may assume that the children are talking negatively about them. In this case, the ...

  6. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    An example of this is the IKEA effect, ... False consensus effect, ... Form function attribution bias

  7. Fallacy - Wikipedia

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    An example is a probabilistically valid instance of the formally invalid argument form of denying the antecedent or affirming the consequent. [ 12 ] Thus, "fallacious arguments usually have the deceptive appearance of being good arguments, [ 13 ] because for most fallacious instances of an argument form, a similar but non-fallacious instance ...

  8. The New Solution to Cultural Appropriation? ‘Nothing From Us ...

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    Burch said she would correct the false attribution immediately and work with the municipality to “support local artisans” in Portugal. Asked what the industry can do to help, Frausto Guerrero ...

  9. Ultimate attribution error - Wikipedia

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    Specifically, it found support for three aspects of the ultimate attribution error: [1] more internal attribution for positive acts, and less internal attribution for negative acts, by ingroup than outgroup members; more attribution of outgroup members' failures to lack of ability, and more explaining away of outgroup members' successes;