Tendency to overestimate the dispositional causes of behavior and underestimate the environmental causes . when others fail.[r]
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Leadership Is Developed
Leadership Is Developed
Through Education and
Through Education and
Experience
(3)Perceptual set
The tendency or bias to
The tendency or bias to
perceive one thing and
perceive one thing and
not another
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FactorsThatAffectaPerceptual Set
ã Feelings ã Needs
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Factors Affecting the Attribution Process
• Fundamental attribution theory • Selfserving bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
Tendency to overestimate the dispositional causes of behavior and underestimate the environmental causes
(7)Selfserving bias
Tendency to make external
Tendency to make external
attributions for one’s own
attributions for one’s own
failures, yet make internal
failures, yet make internal
attributions for one’s successes