The psychology of social chess and the evolution of attribution mechanisms: Explaining the fundamental attribution error

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 11-29

  Andrews, Paul W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Altruism; Bystander intervention effect; Correspondence bias; Deception; Fundamental attribution error; Handicap; Honesty; Mind reading; Signal; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003030254     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1090-5138(00)00059-3     Document Type: Article

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