Cultural Differences in Correspondence Bias

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  1. Hello today we will be talking about cultural differences in correspondence bias.
  2. So let's start off by defining correspondence bias,
  3. correspondence bias is the tendency to attribute behavior
  4. to internal factors.
  5. Another term that I'm going to be
  6. using pretty interchangeably with correspondence bias.
  7. His disposition is um,
  8. which is the view that behavior is determined by internal factors.
  9. Pretty much the same thing.
  10. Situation is.
  11. Um on the other hand is the view that
  12. behaviors are determined by the environment or external factors.
  13. An example of this might be the classic
  14. group project scenario where let's just say Sarah doesn't
  15. show up to your group project meeting that you
  16. guys have been talking about in the group chat
  17. and you would be guilty of correspondence
  18. bias or disposition allow disposition is um
  19. if you were to attribute Sarah's behavior to things like
  20. she's selfish. She's irresponsible, she's dumb. She's not a nice person.
  21. Things that are internal factors.
  22. On the other hand, you would have a situational view of Sarah's behavior.
  23. If you were to think
  24. maybe she is dealing with the family emergency, maybe she's sick.
  25. You know, Sarah woolf works for full time. Has kids maybe just slipped her mind.
  26. She's very busy. It has a lot going on.
  27. And that would be a situational view
  28. um, of Sarah's behavior.
  29. The founding researchers who really took a look
  30. at cultural differences in correspondence bias as we'll
  31. talk about in a minute are choi Nisbet and you're in Zion who did their research
  32. In the 1990s
  33. and most of the research
  34. um on cultural differences in correspondence bias looked
  35. at east asian cultures versus the american,
  36. Western american culture
  37. and the specific study I'm going to be talking about today
  38. was done by Michael Morris and keeping pang.
  39. And what they did was they took students um graduate students,
  40. both chinese and american graduate students
  41. and they gave them
  42. a report
  43. of a murder and there were two different reports.
  44. One where the murderer was an american, one where the murderer was
  45. chinese chinese man and the sea.
  46. The murderers were very similar, almost almost identical except
  47. the race of the murderer.
  48. And they randomly assigned these reports to different students.
  49. And what they asked the
  50. Participants to do was rank certain factors on a scale of 1-7 as um one
  51. being this factor is not very influential in
  52. the murderer's decision to murder and seven,
  53. this factor is very influential in the murderer's decision to murder.
  54. And there were disposition. All factors and situational factors.
  55. So the disposition of all factors were things like
  56. the murderer's temper, you know, mental capability, personality
  57. and
  58. situational factors were things like maybe they didn't have enough, um
  59. supportive friends and family. They just lost their job. Things like that.
  60. What they found was that the chinese
  61. students ranked situational factors or external factors as
  62. more influential in the murderer's decision to murder
  63. than the disposition a laure internal factors.
  64. While the american students
  65. ranked these internal or disposition all factors
  66. as more influential than the situational factors.
  67. And this is just an example of how correspondence bias
  68. can differ based on the culture that you are in.
  69. Thank you.