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- When people see others acting in certain ways, they look for a correspondence between the person's motives and their behaviors. The inferences people then make are based on the degree of choice, the expectedness of the behavior, and the effects of that behavior.
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May 19, 2023 · In social psychology, attribution involves making inferences about the behaviors of others. Attributions, however, are often prone to errors and biases. Learn how.
The first refers to explanations of behavior (i.e., answers to why questions); the second refers to inferences or ascriptions (e.g., inferring traits from behavior, ascribing blame to a person).
- Bertram F. Malle
- 2011
Self-perception theory provides a similar explanation for emotion by suggesting that people infer their emotions by observing their bodies and their behaviors. In other words, people’s emotions and other feelings come from such actions as facial expressions, postures, level of arousal and behaviors.
To know anything about other people we must observe and identify/classify their behavior and then attribute to the observed behavior inferences and judgments about the internal states of that person serving as the motivating force behind their behavior. This entry explores this process of attribution.
Jun 24, 2022 · Research suggests that people spontaneously infer traits from behavioral information, thus forming impressions of actors’ personalities. Such spontaneous trait inferences (STI) have been examined in a wide range of studies in the last four decades. Here, we provide the first systematic meta-analysis of this vast literature.
What the two meanings have in common is a process of assigning: in attribution as explanation, a behav-ior is assigned to its cause; in attribution as inference, a quality or attribute is assigned to the agent on the basis of an observed behavior.
Social cognitive inferences are typically varieties of diagnostic reasoning or, more properly, “abductive” reasoning, in which people infer simple but plausible—although not deductively certain—underlying causes for observable social behaviors.
