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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

The Fallacy of Alignment: Fundamental Attribution Error, Part 2

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

How do we consider and predict the actions and intentions of others? How much do we lean on an individual’s presumed internal disposition versus the particulars of their situation? In this Stuff to Blow Your Mind two-parter, Robert and Joe consider the fundamental attribution error, which breaks down the errors and even dangers of causal cognition.

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1:05.0

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1:11.0

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2:07.0

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadios has stuff works.

2:17.0

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam.

2:20.0

I'm Joe McCormick. We're back with part two of our discussion of the fundamental attribution era.

2:25.0

Our tendency to overestimate dispossitional causes of behavior like innate character traits and attitudes you have and underestimate the role of situational influences on how people act.

2:39.0

We kicked off the first episode by talking about the classic sci-fi horror film Alien.

2:45.0

Figuring out the characters and the motivations and the actions of Ripley and Dallas in the early goings of that film.

2:54.0

Specifically in a scene where Dallas gets back with John Hurd, has an alien facehugger stuck to his face.

3:02.0

He says, let us in the ship and Ripley says, no, I can't do that.

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