{"id":2352,"date":"2010-06-09T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/06\/fundamental-attribution-error\/"},"modified":"2010-06-09T13:35:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T18:35:16","slug":"fundamental-attribution-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/06\/fundamental-attribution-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundamental Attribution Error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Warning<\/em> \u2013 psychology babble coming your way from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1657515\/a-theory-called-a-fundamental-attribution-error?partner=rss&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company+Headlines%29\" target=\"_blank\">Fast Company<\/a>.\u00a0 I encounter this effect often with clients:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That judgment is what\u2019s called, in psychology, the Fundamental Attribution Error. Meaning that we tend to attribute people\u2019s behavior to their core character rather than to their situation. So when somebody cuts you off in traffic, you think, \u201cWhat a jerk!\u201d You don\u2019t think, \u201cI wonder situation he\u2019s in that\u2019s causing him to drive so crazy.\u201d Even though in those times when YOU have driven crazily, it was almost certainly because of the situation you were in\u2014you were late for a job interview or a date.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>May I make a suggestion?\u00a0 The use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selectmetrix.com\/Assessing_Main.html\" target=\"_blank\">assessments<\/a> introduces objective measurement into the situation which helps to limit fundamental attribution error.\u00a0 Limiting subjectivity generally leads to better hiring especially with salespeople.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning \u2013 psychology babble coming your way from Fast Company.\u00a0 I encounter this effect often with clients: That judgment is what\u2019s called, in psychology, the Fundamental Attribution Error. Meaning that we tend to attribute people\u2019s behavior to their core character rather than to their situation. So when somebody cuts you off in traffic, you think, \u201cWhat a jerk!\u201d You don\u2019t think, \u201cI wonder situation he\u2019s in that\u2019s causing him to drive so crazy.\u201d Even though in those times when YOU have driven crazily, it was almost certainly because of the situation you were in\u2014you were late for a job interview or a date. May I make a suggestion?\u00a0 The use&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/06\/fundamental-attribution-error\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,6,31,11],"tags":[96,1748,1592,915,294,330,38,352],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-BW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2353,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions\/2353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->