External Attribution And Internal Attribution

Trevor’s actions led his peers to label him as a constant threat, as well as the school “weirdo.” Everyone, even his parents, cautioned himself or herself around him. Trevor’s own actions categorized him as a threat to all. His peers would wonder about the causes for his actions. This led them to believe in false causes. A theory in this particular case, which is widely used in this concept, is the attribution theory. This explains and states the different types of processes we use to judge behaviors

Psychologists state diffusion of responsibility is one of the main blames for the bystander effect being

When people condemn others, the accuser affect themselves the most. Marc and Dianna MacYoung, the authors of No Nonsense Self-Defense, in their article “Blaming Justifies Your Own Bad Behavior” writes, “Unfortunately, blame is

In the ways of the world it is easier to make assessments about people or objects based on a quick observation. For instance, almost everyone has heard the clique saying “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” This is a perfect scenario where looking at just what is holding the book together a decision is made on whether the book will be picked to read. In the same ways individuals tend to judge each other. Unfortunately, when quick judgments are snapped about a person or object the observer is missing out a bigger picture. This is defined as the fundamental attribution error. For example, a person kicking a vending machine over and over may not have an anger management problem. Although, the observer may make this assumption as they walk by not

The Fundamental Attribution Error occurs when a person’s personality is determined based on how they act in a certain situation, but not including the situation and outside influences when making that determination. The individual could be acting a certain way based on the particular situation or social circumstances, but in all actuality be completely different in another situation. Studies show that in most cases socially we want to fit in with a group, don’t want to be different, don’t want to be wrong, and in many instances act different than what our typical personality and values are based on influencing social factors. One of the main factors that often contributes to how we act in certain situations is to obey those in authority positions. The studies provided below are examples of the show how behaviors can change based on social factors.

Lastly, everyone possesses hypocritical actions and takes credit for their actions either socially, emotionally, physically, or mentally. Outside influences including other people and societal conditions play a key role in also taking credit for people's actions. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne,

The fundamental attribution error intrigued me while reading the book because I came across the example about Hurricane Katrina. I lived through this experience so I felt it was only right that I talk about my take. The definition of the fundamental attribution error is assuming someone’s personality based on their actions, even when there are powerful outside forces that can be influencing them. Hurricane Katrina was a horrible natural disaster that no one could have predicted would happen but none the less it happened. I remember my family and I watching the news together and coming to the crippling conclusion that we had to leave everything we had behind. Of course, we were used to this because we lived in what they call “the soup bowl” and we were used to emergency evacuations for hurricanes. There was no

Why do we blame the victim? Some psychologist argue that victims are to blame in certain cases, they don’t say things like a women’s clothes were too provocative or she was asking for it. They do however state that people claim the status of victim by assigning blame to others, which allows a person to disown any responsibility for one 's behavior and its outcome. Since it has become a trend in our society today to become a victim people may place themselves in certain situations to become a victim. In certain situations it becomes hard to argue that a victim isn’t the person to blame, for example if one contracts lung disease because of smoking. Do you blame the cigarette company or the person? This is the basis of their arguments, the silver lining between what defines a victim and what doesn’t.

When we make situational attributions, we are identifying the cause of an action as something

Although people that are confident enough to take responsibility for their actions and choices know that they are also responsible for the consequences, most people are incapable of seeing what they did wrong and blame the outcome on other reasons. This blame can lead to unjust and immoral consequences that are not deserving of certain people, this can be seen in today’s society.

Blame is the unjust assignment to someone who is innocent of the accused action. When one resorts to blaming, the accuser uses this defense to victimize themselves, therefore, making the opposing argument seem as if they are in the wrong. This is explained in the quote “We live in a culture of blame. People will blame anyone or anything for their misery sooner than take the responsibility to own it and make it better. "

What is blame? Blame is assigned responsibility for fault or wrong. People resort to blame because instead of taking responsibility for their actions you find someone and find reasons as to which they are worst or why they should have the blame because you do not want all the shame on yourself and you do not want to feel guilty and have shame. People blame each other because they cannot expect the fact that they have failed at something. People also blame others because of habit.

No individual is always solely at fault for his or her actions. There are always certain situations where there are exceptions to who is primarily responsible. Human beings are social creatures, therefore linking them into many different situations in multiple ways, sometimes in ways no one would even believe. Prime examples of this are in the book, Macbeth by William Shakespeare, the article, The Amritsar Massacre, the news story “Owen Labrie, Student in NH Rape Trial, Breaks Silence After Conviction” and the article “Teen Driver in Fatal Alcohol-Related Crash is Sentenced to 18 Months in Jail”. In each of these examples there are multiple people who are at fault and could be seen as holding the primary responsibility, depending on how

This perspective would believe that we are one hundred percent responsible for our actions and therefore praise and blame are not only effective but also necessary for a well-functioning society. Finally, the third viewpoint which I will personally be arguing for, is that of compatibilism or ‘soft determinism.’ This

Where one of the parties has either expressly or impliedly assumed responsibility for the other in some way, or where such responsibility arises