🍕 Let's start with a slice of knowledge: Whenever we observe others' behavior, we tend to attribute the cause to either personal (dispositional) factors or situational (external) factors. This is how we try to make sense of the world around us. Imagine watching a football game - if a player misses an easy goal, we might think "That player isn't good enough" (dispositional attribution) or "The sun was in his eyes" (situational attribution).

Heider was like a trailblazer. His approach inspired many other psychologists to develop their own theories to understand how we interpret the world.

(Jones and Davis, 1965): This one's a bit of a tongue twister! It's all about how we link behaviors to personality traits. Picture this: you tune into a news report about a bank robbery. If you immediately think "That thief must be a bad person," then you've made a correspondent inference - you've tied the behavior (stealing) to a personality trait (being a bad person). But, be careful, as we may not always have all the information. What if the thief was stealing to afford medicine for their sick child? Changes things, doesn't it?

🚀 Key Factors in Making Dispositional Attributions:

Hedonic Relevance: The behavior has an effect on us.

Free Choice: The person acted on their own will.

Social Desirability: We tend to attribute unusual (undesirable) behaviors to personality traits more than typical (desirable) ones.