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=== Etymology === The phrase was coined by [[Lee Ross]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Advances in experimental social psychology|last=Ross|first=L.|publisher=Academic Press|year=1977|isbn=978-0-12-015210-0|editor-last=Berkowitz|editor-first=L.|volume=10|location=New York|pages=173β220|chapter=The intuitive psychologist and his shortcomings: Distortions in the attribution process}}</ref> 10 years after an experiment by [[Edward E. Jones]] and Victor Harris in 1967.<ref name="JonesHarris67">{{cite journal|last1=Jones|first1=E. E.|last2=Harris|first2=V. A.|year=1967|title=The attribution of attitudes|journal=Journal of Experimental Social Psychology|volume=3|issue=1|pages=1β24|doi=10.1016/0022-1031(67)90034-0}}</ref> Ross argued in a popular paper that the fundamental attribution error forms the conceptual bedrock for the field of [[social psychology]]. Jones wrote that he found Ross's phrase "overly provocative and somewhat misleading", and also joked: "Furthermore, I'm angry that I didn't think of it first."<ref name="gilbert2">{{cite book|title=Attribution and social interaction: The legacy of E. E. Jones|last=Gilbert|first=D. T.|publisher=APA Press|year=1998|editor-last=Darley|editor-first=J. M.|location=Washington, DC|chapter=Speeding with Ned: A personal view of the correspondence bias|editor2-first=J.|editor2-last=Cooper|chapter-url=http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/SpeedingwithNed.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709090156/http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/SpeedingwithNed.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-09|url=http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/SpeedingwithNed.pdf}}</ref> Some psychologists, including [[Daniel Gilbert (psychologist)|Daniel Gilbert]], have used the phrase "correspondence bias" for the fundamental attribution error.<ref name="gilbert2" /> Other psychologists have argued that the fundamental attribution error and correspondence bias are related but independent phenomena, with the former being a common explanation for the latter.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gawronski|first=Bertram|year=2004|title=Theory-based bias correction in dispositional inference: The fundamental attribution error is dead, long live the correspondence bias|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235413133 |journal=European Review of Social Psychology|volume=15|issue=1|pages=183β217|doi=10.1080/10463280440000026 |s2cid=39233496 |author-link=Bertram Gawronski |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601192154/https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bertram_Gawronski/publication/235413133_Theory-based_bias_correction_in_dispositional_inference_The_fundamental_attribution_error_is_dead_long_live_the_correspondence_bias/links/55da453708aeb38e8a8a1178.pdf |archive-date=2016-06-01}}</ref>
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