Actor-Observer Bias
bias
Summary: Explain your behavior situationally but others’ behavior dispositionally.
Perspective differences create leniency for oneself and harsher judgments for the same actions by others.
Pattern prevalence
- Authors: top 0%, bottom 0.3%, overall 0.2%
- Publications: top 0.7%, bottom 0.1%, overall 0.2%
- Articles: top 0%, bottom 0%, overall 0%
Recent example
When you're willing to put the lives of your constituent at risk so you can have political talking points and get reelected.
Ascribes selfish motivations ('get reelected') to opponents rather than considering policy-based reasons.
Recent articles
DHS Secretary Mullin: We are simply enforcing the laws Congress passed 84%
Fox News - 5/9/2026, 10:30 PM
Negativity Bias 38.4% - Appeal to Emotion 32.6% - Framing Effect 22.3%
Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen spoke moments ago in Kansas City, Missouri on the need to fully fund ICE and border protection for the next three years. Listen, in 38 days, it put our mission at in jeopardy. Now, can we still deliver? Yes. Were we able to be as proactive? No. Absolutely not. We had local law enforcement,... more
Bubba Wallace triggers one of the biggest wrecks in NASCAR history, 'Dega lap dances & Cowboy Pillow girls! 40.5%
OutKick - By Zach Dean - 4/27/2026, 12:18 PM
Optimism Bias 14.7% - Negativity Bias 14.3% - Biased Writer Voice 8.2%
What a week for NASCAR. I'm not sure if it's was good, bad, or indifferent, but it was ... something. It was certainly newsy. Certainly not boring. You can call the sport a lot of things after this past week. "Boring" ain't one of them. And, if you ask insufferable Stephen A. Smith, "sport" ain't one of them, either! We'll get into it.... more
Court defers deportation of truck driver who caused fatal Humboldt Broncos bus crash 9.2%
CBC News - By Karen Pauls - 4/24/2026, 11:49 PM
Appeal to Emotion 13.5% - Anchoring Bias 9% - Negativity Bias 6.3%
Days from being deported, an 11th-hour decision by a Federal Court justice on Friday means that Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, who was found responsible for the fatal Humboldt Broncos bus crash in 2018, can stay in Canada for a little while longer. Sidhu was behind the wheel of the semi-truck that blew through an oversized stop sign with a... more
Shockingly self-pitying outburst of FedEx driver Tanner Horner as he was busted for abducting and killing Athena Strand, 7 49.1%
Daily Mail - By Natasha Anderson - 4/9/2026, 12:58 PM
Appeal to Emotion 28.9% - Biased Writer Voice 25% - Negativity Bias 20.8%
A FedEx driver who snatched a seven-year-old girl from her North Texas home and strangled her to death whined to police about not being able to watch his son grow up after he was busted for murder. Detectives urged Tanner Horner, 34, to help them find Athena Strand's body after he admitted 'I killed her' and 'kind of tossed her' remains... more
Harry and Meghan 'snubbed' by Jordan's royal family: King Abdullah and his eldest son - who have close relationship to Charles and William - swerve meeting with Sussexes 0%
Daily Mail Online - By Nick Pisa, Martin Robinson - 2/26/2026, 12:40 PM
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been seemingly snubbed by the King and Crown Prince of Jordan during their whistle stop pseudo-royal tour to the Middle East. Harry and Meghan landed in the capital Amman late on Tuesday night for a royal-style tour and within hours began a series of humanitarian visits to various charity organisations... more
Washington University plans to acquire St. Louis College of Pharmacy 0%
St. Louis Public Radio - By Sarah Fentem - 2/24/2026, 10:13 PM
Washington University officials have announced plans to acquire the St. Louis College of Pharmacy and the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy campus in St. Louis. The acquisition, which is pending approval from government regulators, would establish the “WashU St. Louis College of Pharmacy” as the university’s 10th academic... more
NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, who has Tourette syndrome, reacts to N-word ‘tic’ outburst at BAFTA awards 0%
New York Daily News - By Leonard Greene - 2/24/2026, 12:28 AM
The fallout from a Tourette syndrome advocate blurting the N-word during a presentation by two Black actors at a British entertainment awards ceremony should generate more compassion — for both sides, said New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, who suffers from the condition. A day after movie subject John Davidson shouted the... more
Council plans to override Mayor Adams, let sex abuse survivors sue the city 0%
Gothamist - By Ryan Kost - 12/26/2025, 6:35 PM
The City Council has a parting gift for Mayor Eric Adams — a planned override of his veto of a bill that could revive hundreds of sex-abuse lawsuits and let new ones move forward. The measure passed the Council unanimously last month, and would have opened a new 18-month “lookback” window for victims of sexual abuse to file claims, even... more
Minnesota mayors say constituents 'scared' as fraud crisis leaves questions unanswered 0%
Fox News - By Taylor Penley - 12/24/2025, 5:12 PM
Two of the nearly 100 Minnesota mayors demanding answers about the state’s unfolding fraud crisis described a climate of relentless uncertainty that has left some constituents "scared" about what lies ahead. "My community is reaching out to me because they're not getting answers from DHS, from other legislators, and they're scared.... more
As the World Cup Nears, Bodies Pile Up in Guadalajara 0%
L.A. TACO - By Ivan Fernandez - 12/23/2025, 4:00 PM
Shoes and signs of missing persons are displayed outside the Palacio de Gobierno de Jalisco, March 2025. Nobody knows who buried the bodies, when the bodies were buried or even the identities of the bodies found bagged and discarded in various clandestine graves near Zapopan, Jalisco. What people do know is that there are too many... more