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The Fundamental Attribution Error as Applied to Governance and the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021-06-11

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Something akin to what social psychologists call the “fundamental attribution error” underlies many discussions of the responsibility of politicians – from Donald Trump to Jacinda Ardern – or the bad or good outcomes the nations they led had with the COVID-19 pandemic. Observers saw what the leaders did, and saw the outcomes. The fundamental attribution error is a tendency to explain the outcome more by pointing...

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Literature Corpus work: e05bb46a-95fe-5667-8c2d-470d631bb687
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3858272

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