In a 1984 study, J.G. Miller showed that this was less common among Indian Hindus than Americans.  
In a 1984 study, J.G. Miller showed that this was less common among Indian Hindus than Americans.  The common term for it was first coined in the work "The Intuitive Psychologist and His Shortcomings", while studies by Daniel Gilbert have shown it to be more common when cognitive load is high. Lee Ross coined the term for it in 1977, while Edward Jones and Victor Harris demonstrated it in a famous 1967 experiment in which subjects read essays and were then asked to rate the authors' attitudes toward Fidel Castro. Also called the "correspondence bias," FTP, name this psychological tendency to over-emphasize personality attributes and under-emphasize situational attributes in explaining the behavior of others.
In a 1984 study, J.G. Miller showed that this was less common among Indian Hindus than Americans.  
{Fundamental attribution error} or bias (also accept accept {overattribution effect};  accept {correspondence bias} before it is mentioned;  prompt on “actor-observer effect”, “correspondent inference,” or “dispositionist bias”)