I don’t think it’s valid to call an observation of a particular person’s reaction to a particular type of situation a fundamental attribution error.
The fundamental attribution error is in predicting the reaction in more types of situations than it appears, not in accurately identifying that the reaction appears in the types of situations that it does for that person. That map of the world in her head is her map, and accurately describing that map is not an error of any kind.
What makes you think the situation is totally different? You’re extracting a different set of signals from the data.
I can’t think of a clearer expression of what fundamental attribution error feels like from the inside.
I don’t think it’s valid to call an observation of a particular person’s reaction to a particular type of situation a fundamental attribution error.
The fundamental attribution error is in predicting the reaction in more types of situations than it appears, not in accurately identifying that the reaction appears in the types of situations that it does for that person. That map of the world in her head is her map, and accurately describing that map is not an error of any kind.