Recall that taylor and fiske (1975) conducted a clever experiment in which a group of participants observed a scripted conversation between two male confederates. some could see both of the men; others could see the face of only one or the other man. when asked questions about the two confederates (e. g., who had taken the lead in the conversation), participants who had a clear view of both men thought they were equally influential, whereas those who faced one or the other thought that the man whose face they saw was more influential. these results demonstrated that

The salience of perceptual stimuli is a good description of how we can end up with attribution error.

Explanation:

This means we can make error in how we define others based on what aspect of them we focused more on or what aspect we didn't focus on.

Salience bias or perceptual salience is how our thinking can be bias sometimes as we tend to focus more on prominent or emotionally capturing individuals than those who seems not noticeable eventhough those differences may not be relevant if we were to think more objectively.

People may be speaking about the same topic but we may tend to listen more to the famous actress saying the same thing which is said by our neighbor just because our neighbor isn't prominent .

the historians cited in the article all agree with one another about the cause of the civil war. despite coming from different backgrounds and cultures, the historians agree that slavery was the root cause of the civil war. the fact that all these historiansgenerally agree with one another makes their shared viewpoints more reliable and valid, especially because the historians have different backgrounds and all work for the well-respected institutions of howard university, clemson university, and the university of colorado.