Fundamental Attribution Errors

Posted on June 2, 2008 by anna-jun.
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Fundamental attribution error (also known as correspondence bias or over-attribution effect) is the tendency for people to over-emphasize dispositional, or personality-based, explanations for behaviors observed in others while under-emphasizing situational explanations.


I found it shocking that most people believe that they are special because they posses certain quality to be resilient and perseverance: strong personality, integrity ,and character.While others who did mistakes, are weak in those.

Sad to say that the more one believes the exceptionalness of himself , the higher the chance that he falls into the same mistake.

Wisdom comes in realizing and accepting the situational forces acting upon people in their decision-making ,and refraining from judging one’s personality.

If most people behave the same way when put in the same situation, then the situation is more likely to be the cause of the behavior.

I am aware of my own capability of doing mistakes, and accept the fact that the best people make mistakes too.

Nothing is wrong in us though.
It is just how life goes.
We cannot help it.

Without any intention to offend anyone ^ ^

Dealing with Envy

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The ugliest part of me appears whenever I got unreasonably jealous and insecure.

Youngest child tends to be insecure.

She is always battling to find the place where she gets enough attention and love, somewhere she can step up from the shadow of being second in everything.

Nonetheless, the cost of the negative feelings is too much to afford.
Yet this stubborn heart still forces me to neglect logical thinking.

Majority Rules

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When dealing with the unknown, people tend to look at majority judgment and draw their decisions based on the majority reasoning patterns.

When facing some options in life, we tend to decide based on the majority demands.

Such as : people tend to fall in love with someone who is proven to have certain number of fans, regardless of his/her quality.
Once, there were twenty pitiable men chased the same woman, and gave up when everyone else give up.

When the demands rise, the projected value of the good rises accordingly.
When the demands go down, the value will bounce back to its actual value.

Everybody wants to be doctors because everybody wants to be doctors
Everybody wants LV because everybody wants LV

Argumentum ad populum.

I have no rights in justifying anyone.
As for me, I avoid falling unto the fallacy.

About Asian Songs

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Why Asian songs sound more melancholic as compare to American songs ?
This is what I think:

Due to the large number of population and high birth rate in Asia,
Asians are always crammed into crowded place with high competition to survive.
That leads to a difficult life full of insecurity, depression and frustration.

Their souls voice themselves through their culture.
Music and dance.

I believe that the high birth rate of Asian people has something to do with their body size.
Since Asian are smaller that European, they need more people in the pack to survive both in hunting and in farming.
Perhaps that leads to strong sense of communal among Asians.
However, as the society evolve and less physical fitness are needed to survive, the necessity to live in a community lessen.

Yet, the culture remains, creating a society with high population growth and conformity.

These lead to modern Asian society problems: high competition, hypocrisy and a great extend of obligation to the pack.

Beneath the show of smile and happiness lies a depressed soul that is too much controlled by the society norms.

This is what Asians sing about in their melancholy songs:
the life, dream and love they have to let go,
and their desire for a sense of security and belonging.

We do what we need to survive.