Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Attribution Bias

Why It's So Hard to Understand That the Violence Your Country Exports Is Terrorism @alternet: Attribution bias is a familiar theme in the literature of modern psychology. “I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favor of using poison gas against uncivilized tribes. It would spread a lively terror.”—Winston Churchill, 1920, with regard to the uprising in Iraq.