- Lee Ross
Lee D. Ross is a professor of
social psychology atStanford University , who has studiedattribution theory ,attributional bias es,decision making andconflict resolution . Studying with Stanley Schachter, he earned his Ph.D. in social psychology atColumbia University in 1969.He first coined the term "
fundamental attribution error " to explain the effects of a study byEdward E. Jones andVictor Harris , in which people were overly ready to see another person's behavior as revealing a particular attitude even though the person's behavior was a response to situational demands. WithRobert Vallone andMark Lepper he authored the first study to describe thehostile media effect . He has also collaborated withRichard Nisbett in books on human judgment (1980) and the relation between social situations and personality (1991).elected publications
* Ross, L. (1977). The intuitive psychologist and his shortcomings: Distortions in the attribution process. In L. Berkowitz (Ed.), "Advances in experimental social psychology" (vol. 10). New York: Academic Press.
Notable contributions
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attribution theory
*bias blind spot
*false consensus effect
*fundamental attribution error
*hostile media effect
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