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Ok this has just popped up,over the years I have been blamed for multiple things in life in which I have fought my way through,but why is it that when something goes wrong the first person that a person blames for something not in my power,what's with that?
Fundamental attribution error (also known as correspondence bias or overattribution effect) is the tendency for people to over-emphasize dispositional, or personality-based, explanations for behaviors observed in others while under-emphasizing situational explanations. In other words, people have an unjustified tendency to assume that a person's actions depend on what "kind" of person that person is rather than on the social and environmental forces influencing the person. Overattribution is less likely, perhaps even inverted, when people explain their own behavior; this discrepancy is called the actor-observer bias. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalattributionerror
I.e. people tend to assume that whatever is going on is because of who you are and they tend not to take circumstance into consideration...
The first person who comes to someones mind is usually the one they choose to blame, some people just don't bother to look at the facts.
