Hi Bloggers!! Ever have someone pass you aggressively while you were driving on a road? Did you get really upset and think the person was a jerk who didn't know how to drive? That is the fundamental attribution error. It is the theory that one overestimates the impact of the person’s personality and underestimates the situation. Most people get very upset when they are cut off. Instead of getting upset, look at it from a situational perspective. Perhaps they are late to a meeting or forgot to pick up their kid from school. The perception of the person becomes positive or neutral when you think of the situational perspective. However, if you look at the personality of the person for the cause of him or her cutting you off, you look the person in a very negative light.
How can you use the fundamental attribution error to your advantage? If you learn to look at the situation instead of personality of the person, your stress will go down. You won’t get angry at drivers or other situations where you don’t know the person you are indirectly interacting with. Most people will not learn this in their life time and will often judge people they don’t know based on one indirect action they did. Don’t be those people.
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