4.Why are you harsher on other people than you are on...
News flash- we are all hypocrites. Remember the time you called your neighbor's unemployment because he was too lazy and incapable. But when you underwent a similar situation, you said it was because the economy was bad.
The " fundamental attribution error," or “correspondence bias," explains our tendency to believe that other people's mistakes are the result of personality flaws and our own mistakes are the result of circumstantial factors.
Of course, there are times when we're correct about our assumptions, but the fundamental attribution error is our tendency to explain the behavior of others based on character or disposition, especially when the behavior is negative.
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