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What is fundamental attribution error?

It is a systematic process of assigning causes to a person's behaviour.

(i) Fundamental attribution error: An overall tendency for people to give greater weightage to internal factors than to external factors is called fundamental attribution error. This tendency is stronger in some cultures than it is in others. For example, Indians tend to make more external(situational attributions than Americans do.

(ii) In general, people attribute success to internal factors, such as their ability hard work they attribute failure to external factors, such as bad luck, the difficulty of the task, and so on.