Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Situational Attribution Vs. Dispositional Attribution

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/situational-attribution-vs-dispositional-attribution.html


Dispositional attribution is the tendency to overlook the situations that people are in, and judge their behavior based on what we assume is their personality. Whereas, situational attribution is the tendency to analyze a person's actions according to the situation that they are in.
We are always trying to understand people and make sense of their behavior, this is called the attribution theory of social psychology. There are two basic ways in which we interpret behavior- in simple words, we either blame the person or we blame the situation. Dispositional attribution is the assumption that an individual's behavior is influenced by his internal characteristics. Whereas situation attribution, is analyzing a person's action with regards to the situation that he or she is in. Let's take a more detailed look at these attributions.
Read more at Buzzle: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/situational-attribution-vs-dispositional-attribution.html


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