23.5: Chapter Exercises
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Chapter Exercises
- Several studies suggest that people in Asian societies like Taiwan are less likely to commit the fundamental attribution error than people in the U.S. or Western Europe. What does this claim mean? What might explain this?
- Even when people are expressly told that an essay’s author was forced to defend a position, they tend to attribute that position to the author. Why?
- Wilbur arrives thirty minutes late to pick up Wilma for their first date. He tells her that he was detained on the phone with his mother, and then he had to stop and get money, then he had a flat.
- How does Wilbur probably view this situation?
- How does Wilma probably view this situation?
- How could Wilma’s view, in conjunction with the primacy effect, affect her later views about Wilbur?
- Describe a real-life situation (one not mentioned above) that involves actor-observer differences. Explain what is going on with our reasoning when such differences occur.
- What implications do the themes of this chapter have for self-knowledge, for the degree to which we can understand who we are and why we do the things we do