People are more likely to focus on internal causes of behaviour when making attributions about others' behaviour, and to external causes when making attributions about their own behaviour. This asymmetry in attribution is known as:

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The actor-observer effect describes the tendency for people to attribute their own actions to external causes while attributing other people's behaviors to internal causes. This explains the asymmetry in how we perceive our own behavior versus how we perceive others' behavior.

People Are More Likely to Focus on Internal Causes of Behaviour