Paul:
The actor-observer bias includes attributions about the self and about
others, so is quite different than the self-serving bias, which involves
only attributions about oneself.
The A-O bias concerns our tendency to attribute our own behaviour to
external causes, but the behavior of
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Paul Leiberton wrote:
Everytime I go over the actor-observer bias, I wonder if this is still a
current concept. I would seem that the self-serving bias would be a more
comprehensive concept. Myers defines slf-serving bias a tendency to
perceive oneself favorably.
Two thoughts/comments.
The actor observer bias is really very specific. The self-serving bias
seems be used to refer to a variety of self-serving biases, including the
optimistic bias (thinking you're less at risk than others). It would
be nice with a more comprehensive theoretical framework for
At 1:00 PM -0500 11/22/00, Marie Helweg-Larsen wrote:
So before we explain why benefits occur as a result of these biases
we first need to establish that benefits (or harm) in fact occur. At
least in the domain of optimistic biases that is not year clear.
Yes. So one would not need to show
Everytime I go over the actor-observer bias, I wonder if this is still a
current concept. I would seem that the self-serving bias would be a more
comprehensive concept. Myers defines slf-serving bias a tendency to
perceive oneself favorably. Would this not mean to make a situational
attribution
