What’s on the Attribution poster
A 5-row table: Bias · What happens.
The main attributional biases.
- Fundamental attribution error — Others' behaviour over-attributed to disposition
- Actor-observer bias — Own behaviour attributed to the situation
- Self-serving bias — Success internal, failure external
- Just-world hypothesis — People get what they deserve
- Halo effect — One positive trait colours all judgements
Kelley's covariation model: we use consensus, distinctiveness and consistency to decide between person and situation.
Questions about the Attribution poster
- What’s on the Attribution (Social) poster?
- A 5-row table: Bias · What happens. The main attributional biases. Fundamental attribution error — Others' behaviour over-attributed to disposition; Actor-observer bias — Own behaviour attributed to the situation; Self-serving bias — Success internal, failure external; Just-world hypothesis — People get what they deserve; Halo effect — One positive trait colours all judgements. Kelley's covariation model: we use consensus, distinctiveness and consistency to decide between person and situation.
- Who is the Attribution (Social) poster for?
- Attribution (Social) belongs to the Psychology section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning social can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Attribution (Social) poster?
- We explain others by character and ourselves by circumstance. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Attribution (Social) belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Attribution (Social)?
- Helping Behaviour, Attitudes & Behaviour and The Bystander Effect sit alongside Attribution (Social) in the Psychology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Helping BehaviourAttitudes & BehaviourThe Bystander Effect
- Is the Attribution (Social) poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Attribution (Social) downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Psychology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Attribution (Social) poster print at?
- Attribution (Social) is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Attribution (Social) loses nothing.Printing guide
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