## Colophon date: title:: The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones type:: [[literature-note]] tags:: url:: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-real-reason-fans-hate-the-last-season-of-game-of-thrones/ status:: [[bean]] ## Notes > When someone wrongs us, we tend to think they are evil, misguided or selfish: a personalized explanation. But when we misbehave, we are better at recognizing the external pressures on us that shape our actions: a situational understanding. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/Qe2qsCzwEe2n7eO_oG4CJw/blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-real-reason-fans-hate-the-last-season-of-game-of-thrones/) > We also have a bias for the individual as the locus of agency in interpreting our own everyday life and the behavior of others. We tend to seek internal, psychological explanations for the behavior of those around us while making situational excuses for our own. This is such a common way of looking at the world that social psychologists have a word for it: the fundamental attribution error. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/S1XZdCzwEe2zSautdd09vA/blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-real-reason-fans-hate-the-last-season-of-game-of-thrones/) - Annotation: [[&ideas]]