Transcript Describe the role of situational and dispositional factors

Describe the role of situational and
dispositional factors in explaining
behavior.
How do we determine other people’s
behavior?
Nice
Not so nice
The question is here is not why Ned or Gargamel are nice or
mean…but why do we think Ned is nice or Gargamel is mean?
Attribution Theory
• Heider 1958 said people always
are looking for the causes
behind other people’s behavior.
• His theory tries to explain how
people determine the cause of
the behavior they observe.
It is either a….
• Situational Attribution
• Dispositional Attribution
And
• Stable Attribution
• Unstable Attribution