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You are driving home after your shift and you notice that the car in front of you is going slower than normal, at times appearing to veer into oncoming traffic. You become angry and utter a series of expletives. You conclude that the driver of that car is either under the influence of drugs or simply lacks the fundamental skills to drive properly, and is probably dysfunctional in most other aspects of life as well. After the car stops in the middle of the road, however, you discover that the driver is instead an elderly person who has just become unconscious.
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Kosmidis, M. (2021). Fundamental Attribution Error. In: Raz, M., Pouryahya, P. (eds) Decision Making in Emergency Medicine. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0143-9_25
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