Women In The Film 'Situational Attribution Error'

The women in the film illustrated an example of situational Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE) when she was mad at the man for eating her supposed salad. She thought the man thought it would be okay to eat her salad because he was hungry, even though she was the one who had made the mistake of sitting at the wrong table. She overestimated the man’s personality by assuming he was rude by eating “her” salad and underestimated the situation by automatically thinking the salad was hers. Additionally, the woman went against a social norm by eating the salad with the man who was a complete stranger. Infrequently does someone share the same food with someone the person does not know, so doing this was probably a big deal to her. She probably did