While You Are Having Dinner at a Restaurant, Your Waiter

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Essay

While you are having dinner at a restaurant, your waiter is rude and makes snide comments. What would the fundamental attribution error predict about the cause to which you will attribute the waiter's behavior?

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Definitions:

Recruitment

The process of attracting, selecting, and appointing suitable candidates for jobs within an organization to fill job vacancies.

Halo Effect

A cognitive bias where an observer's overall impression of a person, company, brand, or product influences their feelings and thoughts about that entity's character or properties.

Employment Interviews

Formal conversations between a job applicant and an employer to assess the applicant’s suitability for a position.

Work Samples

Examples of previous work used to demonstrate an individual's skills, quality of work, and experience to potential employers.