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Swimming Upstream Against the Fundamental Attribution Error: Subjects' Weak Generalizations From the Darley and Batson Study

Year: 1982

Type: article

Abstract: Subjects read about the Darley and Batson findings that (a) the degree to which people were in a hurry strongly influenced the likelihood that they would help a person in need of aid, while (b) several personality variables studied failed to influence helping. In predicting helping rates for other, similar situations, informed subjects (a) estimated only somewhat less helping when the target individual was in a hurry than when he was not, and (b) continued to emphasize personality variables in their predictions about helping.

Source: Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal

DOI: 10.2224/sbp.1982.10.1.1

Authors: Paula R. Pietromonaco, Richard E. Nisbett

Institution: University of Michigan

Language: English

Topic: Social and Intergroup Psychology

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W1981495804

FWCI: 2.479

Cites: 8

Cited by: 28

Related to: 10