4 main errors in attribution

• fundemental attribution error making assumptions of a person's character based on one encounter
• just world hypothesis making the assumption the world is fair and so when bad things happen to people, those people are deserving or have done something for the bad thing to happen
• self serving bias we attribute our successes due to our internal characteristics and our short comings and failures to external circumstances
• false consensus effect assuming how others are going to act and respond to a situation according to how they would react