The Fundamental Attribution Error

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The key takeaway is that we have the fundamental attribution aror in our lives. Next time you feel yourself like, really disagreeing with someoner, getting very tense in a certain situation, step back and say, can i ask some questions here and learn a little bit more instead of reacting? One little idea would be go to a political rally of the side that you don't agree with. Go talk to some people there, go see what that's all about. And you may be just absolutely disgusted. But you may also see that everybody is, again, just navigating the world the best they can,. They may have different experiences than you, and actually probably agrees with you, and a

Among the many biases that we can fall prey to, one of Calvin's favorites is the fundamental attribution error. The bias, sometimes known as the "correspondence bias", is your tendency to assume that someone's behavior is due to the "kind" of person they are, rather than the circumstances impacting them.

In this episode, Calvin and Steph discuss the cognitive bias, why it matters, and how we can combat it.