Editing Attribution bias (section)

====Cognitive explanation====
Although psychologists agreed that people are prone to these cognitive biases, there existed disagreement concerning the cause of such biases. On one hand, supporters of a "cognitive model" argued that biases were a product of human information processing constraints. One major proponent of this view was [[Yale]] psychologist Michael Storms, who proposed this cognitive explanation following his 1973 study of social perception.<ref name="Storms 1973"/> In his experiment, participants viewed a conversation between two individuals, dubbed Actor One and Actor Two. Some participants viewed the conversation while facing Actor One, such that they were unable to see the front of Actor Two, while other participants viewed the conversation while facing Actor Two, obstructed from the front of Actor One.

Following the conversation, participants were asked to make attributions about the conversationalists. Storms found that participants ascribed more causal influence to the person they were looking at. Thus, participants made different attributions about people depending on the information they had access to. Storms used these results to bolster his theory of cognitively-driven attribution biases; because people have no access to the world except through their own eyes, they are inevitably constrained and consequently prone to biases. Similarly, social psychologist [[Anthony Greenwald]] described humans as possessing a ''totalitarian ego'', meaning that people view the world through their own personal selves.<ref name="Greenwald 1980">{{cite journal | last1 = Greenwald | first1 = A.G. | s2cid = 1350893 | year = 1973 | title = The totalitarian ego: Fabrication and revision of personal history | journal = American Psychologist | volume = 35 | issue = 7| pages = 603–618 | doi = 10.1037/0003-066X.35.7.603 }}</ref> Therefore, different people may interpret the world differently and in turn reach different conclusions.