Actor-Observer Bias

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The Actor-Observer bias

The tendency to attribute other people’s behaviour to internal causes and our own behaviours to external causes

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Storms Experiment

  • Observers = WHAT

  • Actors = WHAT

Storms Experiment

  • Observers = dispositional factors when explaining actor’s behaviour

  • Actors = situational factors when explaining their own behaviour

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Storms believes this is due to WHAT

Storms believes this is due to PERCEPTUAL SALIENCE

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Perceptual salience

Actor’s attention is away from them (external); observers attention is on the actor (dispositional)