Culture and the fundamental attribution error
Compared with people from individualist cultures, people from collectivist cultures tend to:
Answer A: explanation for every choice
A
Correct. The fundamental attribution error is weaker in collectivist cultures, which emphasize context and relationships.
B
Strong dispositional attributions are more typical of individualist cultures.
C
The self-serving bias also tends to be weaker in collectivist cultures.
D
Collectivist cultures attend more, not less, to social context.
TakeawayIndividualist cultures emphasize the person. Collectivist cultures emphasize the situation.
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