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I could say you're a kind person or you're a rude person.
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I could say "This must be a great day for you"
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or "You must be a lot of-- under a lot of stress or you must want something."
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There's different sorts of attributions we could make to people
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but Heider's insight is we tend to attribute other people's actions
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to their personality characteristics, to long-standing aspects of what they are.
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And this is known as a person bias. And more generally,
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people tend to give too much weight to the person
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and not enough weight to the situation.
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This is also sometimes known as the fundamental attribution error.
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The fundamental attribution error, which is one of the core ideas in psychology,
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is that we tend to over-attribute things