The Perceiver as Perceived: Everyday Intuitions About the Correspondence Bias

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 77, pp. 1188-1199, 1999

12 Pages Posted: 18 Feb 2010

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Akiko Kamada

Nihon University

Thomas Gilovich

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Leaf Van Boven

University of Colorado Boulder

Date Written: 1999

Abstract

The research examined people's intuitions about the correspondence bias, or the tendency to favor dispositional rather than situational explanations of behavior. In 3 studies, constrained actors overestimated the magnitude of observers' correspondent inferences. Additional studies indicated that this overestimation is due to people's oversimplified theories about the attributional processes of others. In one, Japanese participants, whose culture places greater emphasis on situational explanations of behavior, did not overestimate the correspondent inferences of observers. In other studies, participants indicated that they thought others' attributions are more influenced by an actor's behavior than by the factors constraining the behavior. Discussion focuses on whether people believe others are more prone to the correspondence bias than they are themselves and on the consequences of overestimating the correspondence bias in everyday interaction.

Suggested Citation

Kamada, Akiko and Gilovich, Thomas and Van Boven, Leaf, The Perceiver as Perceived: Everyday Intuitions About the Correspondence Bias (1999). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 77, pp. 1188-1199, 1999, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1532578

Akiko Kamada

Nihon University

Tokyo
Japan

Thomas Gilovich

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Leaf Van Boven (Contact Author)

University of Colorado Boulder ( email )

University of Colorado Boulder
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, 345 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
United States
303.735.5238 (Phone)
303.492.2967 (Fax)

HOME PAGE: http://psych.colorado.edu/~vanboven/

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