fundamental-attribution-error SKILL.md skillA
fundamental-attribution-error from deciqai/knowledge-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/fundamental-attribution-error@git:20261025.cb4e537Pins git:20261025.cb4e537 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- deciqai/knowledge-skills
- Path
fundamental-attribution-error/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261025.cb4e537, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 16, 2026
- Size
- 8,692 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- MIT
Activate when: someone says 'they're just like that,' an employee is being blamed for underperformance without examining their situation, a post-mortem is focusing on who screwed up, customer churn is being written off as 'not the right fit,' or someone asks 'why did they do that?' with a character-based answer. Do NOT activate when: the behavior forms a documented pattern across many genuinely different situations (dispositional inference is warranted); situational analysis is being used as a…
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What the file says
# Fundamental Attribution Error ## Overview The **fundamental attribution error (FAE)** is the systematic tendency to over-weight character factors and under-weight situational factors when explaining others' behavior — while reversing this for your own behavior (actor-observer asymmetry). Coined by Lee Ross (1977), grounded in Jones & Harris's 1967 Castro study. The bias is automatic (System 1); situational correction requires deliberate effort (System 2). Composes with [`hanlons-razor`](../hanlons-razor/SKILL.md), [`survivorship-bias`](../survivorship-bias/SKILL.md), [`critical-thinking`](../critical-thinking/SKILL.md), [`dual-system-thinking`](../dual-system-thinking/SKILL.md), [`narrative-fallacy`](../narrative-fallacy/SKILL.md). ## When to Use - Diagnosing why an employee is underperforming - Analyzing customer churn - Conducting post-mortems on outages, accidents, or failures - Mediating interpersonal conflict - Designing products and observing user behavior - Performance reviews, evaluations, competitor behavior analysis - Someone says "fundamental attribution error," "actor-observer," or "what situation made this rational" …
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How to install
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/fundamental-attribution-error@sha256:59c2f912c49d39e0The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.cb4e537, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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| git:20260719.ed3f856 | 2026-07-19 | ed3f856 | 8,692 B | A | view · diff |
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Audit of the latest version
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Source
deciqai/knowledge-skills · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zlrewwhvzr2mzxh2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deciqai/knowledge-skills/fundamental-attribution-error GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/59c2f912c49d39e07a8012d7765d0f476ea3e38ee9b7e912d435db6ba4fa1ea3
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