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A Study of Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE) Abstract This study explores Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE). More specifically, the study investigates the capacity of individuals to process/absorb material when confronted with ‘cognitive load’ or, conversely, ‘cognitive relief’. Such a study necessarily entails incorporating various sources of prior research. As a result, the research methodology of this paper incorporated Forgas’s contention that mood plays a considerable role in the tendency of individual’s to make FAEs; beyond that, this study incorporated the tentative findings of Lovaglia who, in a corollary to Forgas, emphasizes the effect of attitude upon an individual’s predilection to commit FAEs; finally, the research of Randall, Cacioppo, Fincher-Keifer and others into the effects of personality characteristics and NFC(need for cognition) have been thoughtfully incorporated into the study, as well. In conclusion, the study determines that there is indeed a striking correlation between ‘cognitive load’ and ‘cognitive relief’ and an individual’s capacity to process information while avoiding FAEs.
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