When a local resident in the town of Henzville killed four people with a gun,he was considered a murderer.However,weeks later,when a policeman killed two civilians in the same town,it was reasoned that he was suffering from depression and financial stress.This exemplifies ________.

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The scenario exemplifies the fundamental attribution error, which is the tendency to overemphasize dispositional explanations for others' behavior and underemphasize situational explanations. The local resident is attributed with a dispositional explanation of being a murderer whereas the policeman is attributed with a situational explanation of suffering from depression and financial stress. This highlights how people make different judgments based on the same behavior depending on the attributions they make about the actor's disposition or situational circumstances.

When a Local Resident in the Town of Henzville Killed