Describe the difference in the view of an actor (a person performing a behavior) and an observer of the behavior in terms of the kind of attribution that is made. What role does this play in people's conception of self in the present and in the past?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer:
Actors see their behaviors as situationally driven, while observers tend to make dispositional attributions. People see their past self as if they were an observer, and, as a result, see their behavior as more dispositionally driven, as compared with their present self, which they see as more driven by situation.

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