What do the Asch and Milgram experiments tell us about the fundamental attribution error?

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What do the Asch and Milgram experiments tell us about the fundamental attribution error?



What is important about the Asch and Milgram experiments is that they show how obedience can take precedence over moral sense. Essentially situations can persuade people to go against their own consciences.

It is important to note that level of personal responsibility is a factor in the obedience studies. Psychological states shifted during the various phases of the obedience studies. There was often a reluctance to comply (at the beginning of study) that later led to a justification of cruel acts (nearing the end of study).

As we have learned in previous modules, culture is a powerful shaper of lives. However the immediate situational forces are just as powerful. Situations can induce ordinary people to agree to falsehoods or to capitulate to cruelty.

Perhaps the most important lesson from this module is that the situation matters.

FAE: The fundamental attribution error is our tendency to explain someone's behavior based on internal factors, such as personality or disposition, and to underestimate the influence that external factors, such as situational influences, have on another person's behaviour.

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