Lee D. Ross (1942-2021)

Memorializes Lee D. Ross (1942-2021). Ross made many contributions to social psychology. He had a knack for seeing the broad and deep psychological processes underlying individual episodes of rich, everyday behavior. Ross then crafted experiments that explored those processes in a way that was engag...

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Published in:The American psychologist 2022-02, Vol.77 (2), p.308-309
Main Authors: Gilovich, Thomas, Lepper, Mark, Nisbett, Richard, Ward, Andrew
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitudes
Attribution
Behavior
College Teachers
Errors
Experimentation
Faculty
Human
Humans
Male
Personality Traits
Psychological processes
Social Psychologists
Social Psychology
Universities
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Summary:Memorializes Lee D. Ross (1942-2021). Ross made many contributions to social psychology. He had a knack for seeing the broad and deep psychological processes underlying individual episodes of rich, everyday behavior. Ross then crafted experiments that explored those processes in a way that was engaging and unusually memorable. After completing his PhD degree in 1969, Ross joined the faculty at Stanford University, where he taught for 52 years. Ross first achieved prominence in 1977 when he coined the term "the fundamental attribution error" to describe the tendency to attribute behavior primarily to a person's traits, attitudes, and other characteristics even when it should be clear that the person's behavior was largely the result of situational influences or constraints. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
ISSN:0003-066X
1935-990X
DOI:10.1037/amp0000916