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petersonvon Ode to a world-saving idea: attribution error and cognitive empathy (2021)

It is true that a situation will mostly determine what a person will do. But it is also true that different people will act differently in very close situations.

So how do we separate and weight how much the situation and the personality influence on the outcome? Not having a way of doing this and just saying 'our tendency in most situations to downplay the role of circumstance' seems oddly shallow and irresponsible