concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: correspondence bias

correspondence bias
type: Concept
broader: social cognition
definition: Definition The term correspondence bias describes perceivers' tendency to infer stable personality characteristics from other people's behavior even when this behavior was caused by situational factors. For example, students may infer a high level of dispositional (trait) anxiety from a fellow student's nervous behavior during a class presentation, even though such nervous behavior may simply be the result of the anxietyprovoking situation. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Psychology; Correspondence Bias]

social cognition
type: Concept
narrower: correspondence bias