Editing Attribution bias (section)

====Correspondent inference theory====
Building on [[Attribution bias#Fritz Heider|Heider's]] early work, other psychologists in the 1960s and 1970s extended work on attributions by offering additional related theories. In 1965, social psychologists Edward E. Jones and Keith Davis proposed an explanation for patterns of attribution termed ''correspondent inference theory''.<ref name="Jones and Davis 1965"/>  A correspondent inference assumes that a person's behavior reflects a stable disposition or personality characteristic instead of a situational factor. They explained that certain conditions make us more likely to make a correspondent inference about someone's behavior:

* Intention: People are more likely to make a correspondent inference when they interpret someone's behavior as intentional, rather than unintentional.
* Social desirability: People are more likely to make a correspondent inference when an actor's behavior is socially undesirable than when it is conventional.
* Effects of behavior: People are more likely to make a correspondent, or dispositional, inference when someone else's actions yield outcomes that are rare or not yielded by other actions.