What Is The Tendency To Overestimate Personal Attributions In Others And Downplay Situational Ones?

What Is The Tendency To Overestimate Personal Attributions In Others And Downplay Situational Ones? The fundamental attribution error, also called the correspondence bias, describes the tendency for observer’s to attribute other people’s behavior to internal or dispositional factors and to downplay situational causes (Gilbert & Malone, 1995). What is the difference between personal and situational