Dispositional Attribution Error

The fundamental attribution error a more common name for the correspondence bias is defined as the tendency of people to make dispositional attributions for others behaviors. (Duff, 2012) For example, if a cashier failed to smile at you while checking out at the store, you might assume that they are just miserable and rude. You wouldn’t take anything else into consideration. You’d be judging their behavior based “who they are” rather than taking situational factors into consideration.
The observations that I made for this particular paper were done two weeks before the paper was due. The first part that was asked of me was to take a 24-hour period and note all of the times that I had made a judgement of someone's behavior. The second part
On this particular day, I was working a birthday party. As a staff member I host the party, this particular one was a "Bake with me party". We bake pizza and cookies with the guest but I also have to interact with parents and my coworkers. The first time that I felt that I was being judged was when I was putting up the decorations up for the party. My coworker asked me if I had decorated before and I mentioned that I had only done once or twice before. That's when it dawned on me, she was judging the way that I had put up the streamers. I believe that she was doing this because I had mentioned to her before that I wasn't very creative, therefore I believe that she took the dispositional judgement and put it on the fact that I had mentioned that I wasn't very creative. On the way home when driving I hate to admit that I was both texting and talking on the phone. I did get dirty looks from other people, and I completely understand. I'd do the same, it is very common. Many people hate this, but I do feel that I get judged when doing this. I feel that people take the dispositional judgement especially when it's a young person like me. They'd most likely label me and others as "reckless and dangerous". These words are typically used when judging a teenager or a young adult. As if I didn't feel judged enough, I later headed to my boyfriend's house, we have been together for about a year and a half now and to
It mentioned, “to say that we tend to downplay or ignore the power of situations. When we see bad behavior we don't tend to look at the environmental context, the situational causes and pressures. We tend to go looking for bad apples.” As humans, it is our natural instinct to think of the worst of people. Therefore, instead of taking the situational attribution and judging their behavior we jump to conclusions and make a judgment that is dispositional. There are many reasons as to why we choose to do this but this article explains that we do this “Because it's easier, quicker and cleaner. It's easier to locate, blame and punish a lone perpetrator than to rethink environments, systems, and organizations that produce the "bad" apples.” Which brings us to the way that we judge poor people. We judge them and say that they are “lazy, undisciplined, and lacking in work ethic.” These are all dispositional traits. When in reality there is more to someone than their characterological