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The Fundamental Attribution Error: Judging Others vs. Ourselves
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The Fundamental Attribution Error: Judging Others vs. Ourselves

Corrected by Emir Baycan · on When Notes Fly · 12 July 2026 · View published page ↗

The fundamental attribution error explains why we judge others by character but excuse our own actions by circumstance.

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−Glenn Reeder's 2009 work on the attribution of mental states, published in Social Cognition,
+Glenn Reeder's 2009 work on the attribution of mental states, published in Psychological Inquiry,

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