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In our day-to day life, we assign certain causes or reasons to a person's behaviour. This process is called attribution. Broadly, causes of a person are attributed to internal and external factors. Internal factors are related to situation. With reference to success and failure, Weiner has classified causes into internal/external and stable/unstable factors. In general, people attribute success to internal factors such as their ability and hard work. However, failure is attributed to external factors such as task difficulty and bad luck. Ability/fate and hard-work/task-difficulty are considered as stable and unstable factors respectively. Stable factors refer to those causes that do not change with time. It has been observed that people have a tendency to give greater weightage to internal factors than external one. This phenomenon is called the fundamental attribution error. This tendency is stronger in some cultures than in others. Research suggests that Indians tend to make more external attributions than Americans do.

Fundamental attribution error is known as a tendency to give greater weightage to :

internal factors then external factors

In making attributions, there is an overall tendency for people to give greater weightage to internal or dispositional factors, than to external or situational factors. This is called the fundamental attribution error. This tendency is stronger in some cultures than it is in others. For instance, research shows that Indians tend to make more external (situational) attributions than Americans do.

The correct answer is internal factors than external factors.

The fundamental attribution error is a common cognitive bias that occurs when people tend to overestimate the influence of internal factors (such as personality, ability, or effort) and underestimate the influence of external factors (such as luck, situational factors, or the actions of others) in explaining the behavior of others.

In other words, people have a tendency to attribute the success or failure of others to their own personal qualities rather than to external circumstances. This bias can lead to misjudgments and misunderstandings in our interactions with others.