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Home Blog Attribution Bias

Episode 7: Blaming the Victim and other Attribution Biases

MichaelMarch 11, 2007Cognition, Intelligence and Language, Social Psychology11 Comments

Blaming the victim – why do we do it? Are rape victims responsible for what happens to them? Are victims of car crashes or other accidents responsible for what happened to them?

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