For Fundamental Attribution Error we have terms and definitions in 4 topics. The topics are Advocacy, Intergroup, Non-Profit Marketing and Organizational Capacity.

Fundamental Attribution Error (Advocacy)

The assumption that how a person behaves is based on personality, with no consideration for the effects of surrounding social, biological, or environmental forces. See also:Prejudice

Fundamental Attribution Error (Intergroup)

A common cognitive action in which one attributes his/her own success and positive actions to his/her own innate characteristics ("I'm a good person") and failure to external influences ("I lost it in the sun"), while attributing others success to external influences ("he had help, was lucky") and failure to others' innate characteristics ("they're bad people"). This operates on the group levels as well, with the ingroup giving itself favorable attributions, while giving the outgroup unfavorable attributions, as way of maintaining a feeling of superiority. A "double standard."

Fundamental Attribution Error (Non-Profit Marketing)

The assumption that how a person behaves is based on personality, with no consideration for the effects of surrounding social, biological, or environmental forces. See also:Prejudice

Fundamental Attribution Error (Organizational Capacity)

The assumption that how a person behaves is based on personality, with no consideration for the effects of surrounding social, biological, or environmental forces. See also:Prejudice

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