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===Type II===

The second form of group attribution error was first reported by Scott T. Allison and David Messick in 1985. This form describes people's tendency to assume incorrectly that [[group decision-making|group decisions]] reflect group members' attitudes. In their study the researchers did multiple experiments presenting participants with group decisions made on the national, state, and local levels. Participants were presented with situations in which a matter of public policy was determined by a single leader with no popular vote, a popular vote of over 90% of the population, and a popular vote which included approximately 50% of the population. If no group attribution error were present, the participants would be expected to conclude that in the 90% vote the views of the individuals were reflective of the group decision, in the 50% vote they may or may not be, and in the leader decision there is no evidence that the individual views reflect the group outcome. Allison and Messick discovered instead, however, that the participants associated the individual views with the group outcome in all three cases.<ref name=":1" />

==== Limitations and threats ====

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==Etymology==

The group attribution error has been referred as a term since 1985 by Scott T. Allison and David M. Messick after evaluating numerous researches made between 1970- and 1985. These researches tie different attribution biases to an individual either 1) the individual's behavior or 2) the outcomes of the group that the individual belongs to. The first one is known as the fundamental attribution error, and the consequent one is known as the group attribution error.<ref name=":04" /><ref name=":1" /><ref>Ross, L. (1977). The intuitive psychologist and his shortcomings: Distortions in the attribution process. ''Advances in experimental social psychology'', ''10'', 173-220.</ref>

==Human development perception of group attribution==

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*{{cite book|last1=Allison|first1=Scott T.|last2=Mackie|first2=Diane M.|last3=Messick|first3=David M.|title=Outcome Biases in Social Perception: Implications for Dispositional Inference, Attitude Change, Stereotyping, and Social Behavior|journal=Advances in Experimental Social Psychology|date=1996|volume=28|pages=53–93|doi=10.1016/S0065-2601(08)60236-1|isbn=9780120152285}}

*{{cite journal|last1=Worth|first1=Leila T.|last2=Allison|first2=Scott T.|last3=Messick|first3=David M.|title=Impact of a group decision on perception of one's own and others' attitudes|journal=Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|date=1987|volume=53|issue=4|pages=673–682|doi=10.1037/0022-3514.53.4.673}}

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[[Category:Attitude attribution]]

[[Category:Cognitive biases]]

[[Category:Group processes|Attribution error]]

[[Category:Error]]

[[Category:Prejudices]]