In trying to understand why some ethnic neighborhoods are dominated by poverty, people often infer that the residents are lazy and unmotivated.This type of inference illustrates:

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The inference that residents in ethnic neighborhoods dominated by poverty are lazy and unmotivated is an example of the fundamental attribution error, which is the tendency to overemphasize dispositional (personal or internal) explanations for behavior and ignore situational (external) factors. This error is often made when explaining the behavior of others, especially when those behaviors are negative or undesirable.

In Trying to Understand Why Some Ethnic Neighborhoods Are Dominated