Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ259094
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1982-Mar
Pages: N/A
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Toward an Understanding of the Fundamental Attribution Error: Essay Diagnosticity in the Attitude Attribution Paradigm.
Miller, Arthur G.; Rorer, Leonard G.
Journal of Research in Personality, v16 n1 p41-59 Mar 1982
Examined observer error in attitude attribution. Subjects appeared to have invested essays, written under assignment, with diagnostic value on the presumption of a correlation between the strength of the essay and the writer's attitude. Suggests that attribution error is based on the inclination to adopt a diagnostic judgmental set. (Author)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Attitudes, Attribution Theory, Bias, Error Patterns, Evaluation, Identification, Observation, Social Cognition
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A
