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In Storms' research on the actor-observer bias, participants observed two people interact. They found the actor made ___________ attributions while the observer made __________ attributions. However, when they watched a video of the same interaction from a different angle that reversed the perspectives so that the actor was now the observer, the ________.

Sagot :

Answer:

situational; dispositional; original attributions switched.

Explanation:

In the field of social psychology, the term " actor-observer bias" defined the tendency of a person to attribute one's action to the external cause while attributing the other people's behavior into the internal causes.

In the context, with regard to the actor-observer bias, the situational attribution refers to the ascription of one's  behavior or an event, which causes outside the person  in concerned. It may be luck or pressure from other people, or some external circumstances. The actor was showing situational attributions.

While the observer shows the dispositional attribution where it refers to attribution of the behavior or action due to the internal situations or psychological situations such moods, decisions, traits, etc.

But when the actor and the observer watched the video from a different angle, it reversed the perspective of the two and the original attributions of them now changed.