Attitude And Social Cognition — Psychology STD 12 Humanities — Question
CBSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 HumanitiesPsychologyAttitude And Social Cognition3 Marks
Question
What is actor-observer effect of attribution?
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Answer
Actor–observer effect – A distinction is found between the attribution that a person makes for his/her own positive and negative experiences (actor role) and the attribution made for another person’s positive and negative experiences (observer role).
For your own positive experience you make internal attribution i.e. hard work and for someone else’s experience we give external attribution i.e. good luck or easy test.
The basic reason for the difference is that people like to have a nice image of themselves as compared to others.
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