Evaluate The Attribution Process

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The attribution process suggests that we judge people on what they do in a situation in which the behaviours occur, we then search for the causes of the behaviour and make judgements from our first observation, however weak the evidence is. Therefore in this example the speaker has attributed the responses and way the person has behaved to the fact that they are a Manchester United fan therefore the speaker is judging the person based on that fact. The halo effect could also be applied here, if someone has been told to have negative traits then the likelihood is that people will tend to attribute other negative qualities to them for example there is a brief insinuation of violence mentioned. Impression forming is not a solitary process in the