The ultimate attribution error is a bias in how people explain the behavior of members of an outgroup compared with their own ingroup. Negative behavior by an outgroup member tends to be attributed to that person's own character, while positive behavior by an outgroup member tends to be explained away as due to luck or circumstance, and the reverse pattern holds for how an ingroup member's own behavior is explained. The bias has been found to show up more strongly among people from Western cultures than among people from Eastern cultures.
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Core ClaimThe ultimate attribution error is an attribution error made when making in-group and out-group attributions, resulting in in-group favoritism. 1 First Described Year Classification
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The ultimate attribution error is an attribution error made when making in-group and out-group attributions, resulting in in-group favoritism.
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The concept and term originates in an article by Thomas F. Pettigrew in 1979 as an extension of the fundamental attribution error which was identified in 1958.
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The ultimate attribution error is an attribution error made when making in-group and out-group attributions, resulting in in-group favoritism.
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Wikipedia article 'Ultimate attribution error' is filed under Category:Cognitive biases.
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