![]() So, in my recent study, I was interested to see if these same biases applied to people’s attributions for infidelity. On the other hand, people often attribute the negative test performance of others to dispositional variables (e.g., he/she lacks intelligence, he/she did not study enough). ![]() For example, when explaining poor test performance, people are likely to attribute the cause of their own poor performance to situational variables (e.g., noisy test environment, a poor teacher/student relationship). In essence, social psychologists describe the actor-observer bias as the tendency to excuse our own negative behavior by attributing it to all sorts of circumstantial reasons, while explaining the negative behavior of others using stable dispositions (i.e., personality characteristics). This tendency to judge and interpret other’s behavior differently from or own is referred to as the actor-observer bias (Jones & Nisbett, 1972). ![]() What are your first thoughts? Do you think to yourself “there must be some explanation for this, maybe they are rehearsing for a play” or do you think “that sketchball is sneaking around behind my back”? Well, as it turns out, the way we interpret and perceive infidelity-related behaviors varies notably depending on the person in question.Īccording to a recent study of mine published in the journal of Basic and Applied Social Psychology (Thompson & O’Sullivan, 2017) , people interpret the intentions of their romantic partner’s indiscretions very differently from the ways with which they interpret their own. ![]() Let’s pretend you run across your romantic partner holding someone else’s hand. ![]()
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