The Fundamental Attribution Error Analysis
The Fundamental Attribution Error(FAE) is when people do not factor in the person and the situation of what is happening (Stangor, Jhangiani & Tarry, 2014). The Department of Motor Vehicles(DMV) is the first case where I had observed the Fundamental Attribution Error. During this time, one of the workers was angry and acting mean from when it had looked like there was a sheet of paperwork missing from the stack. The paper in question had stuck to the paper in front of it due to how new the paper was when paperwork was printed. A dispositional cause, is that this woman was mean since she did not see the paper that was in the stack. A situational cause, is that she had a bad morning where her car would not start and was late for work. At that
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I can see where I could have given off the wrong emotions and with my new knowledge I can see where the high stress level of where said people worked can impact their reaction to my own experiences and the others around me. Being aware of the Fundamental Attribution Error has made me both less judgmental and more compassionate in situations since I do not know the background of what is happening in the persons lives around me. It made me less judgmental because I could see that these people are human just like me and have lives outside of what I see. With being more compassionate I could look pass the flaws that I can only see on the surface and be more careful and show more people love instead of judging them harshly. I feel that people commit the Fundamental Attribution Error when judging my behavior because how I can be very quiet and sometimes only speak very few words in a certain location. A time that I can think where I was judged was when I was visiting my grandfather and his pastor stopped by and they started talking about politics and how the new age ranges of the generations and had asked me what my views were on certain topics. When I was asked these questions, I took a few moments to think about it but they had thought it was a surprised emotion since I did not answer as quickly as they had
I can see where I could have given off the wrong emotions and with my new knowledge I can see where the high stress level of where said people worked can impact their reaction to my own experiences and the others around me. Being aware of the Fundamental Attribution Error has made me both less judgmental and more compassionate in situations since I do not know the background of what is happening in the persons lives around me. It made me less judgmental because I could see that these people are human just like me and have lives outside of what I see. With being more compassionate I could look pass the flaws that I can only see on the surface and be more careful and show more people love instead of judging them harshly. I feel that people commit the Fundamental Attribution Error when judging my behavior because how I can be very quiet and sometimes only speak very few words in a certain location. A time that I can think where I was judged was when I was visiting my grandfather and his pastor stopped by and they started talking about politics and how the new age ranges of the generations and had asked me what my views were on certain topics. When I was asked these questions, I took a few moments to think about it but they had thought it was a surprised emotion since I did not answer as quickly as they had