1. Attributing Causality: To the Person or the Situation?

1. Inferring Traits
2. Commonsense Attributions

2. The Fundamental Attribution Error

1. The Fundamental Attribution Error in Everyday Life

3. Why Do We Make the Attribution Error?

1. Perspective and Situational Awareness
2. Cultural Differences

4. How Fundamental Is the Fundamental Attribution Error?

5. Why We Study Attribution Errors

1. Perceiving and Interpreting Events

2. Belief Perseverance

3. Constructing Memories of Ourselves and Our Worlds

1. Reconstructing Past Attitudes
2. Reconstructing Past Behavior
3. Reconstructing Our Experiences: Misinformation and Priming

1. Intuitive Judgments

1. The Powers of the Intuition
2. The Limits of Intuition

2. The Tendency to be Overconfident

1. Confirmation Bias
2. Remedies for Overconfidence

3. Heuristics: Mental Shortcuts

1. Representativeness Heuristic
2. The Availability Heuristic
3. Counterfactual Thinking

4. Illusory Thinking

1. Illusory Correlation
2. Illusion of Control

5. Mood and Judgment

1. Teacher Expectations and Student Performance
2. Getting from Others What We Expect