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Sarah, Was The Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE)

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One of the key perceptual distortions, which resulted in a miscommunication between Sarah and myself, was the fundamental attribution error. Ross, 1977 states that the fundamental attribution error (FAE) is the inclination to attribute someone’s behaviours to internal factors (his or her personality), rather than external factors (situation). In the case of Sarah, I attributed her lying around all the time and not engaging in schoolwork or activities due to her having a lazy personality. But in actuality, her condition – DSPS prevented her from being able to function in what I considered to be normal. Therefore, I was suffering from a perceptual distortion by attributing her behaviours to internal factors rather than external, as DSPS was

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