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An example of the correspondence bias may be found in seeing someone kick a vending machine - we assume they must be an innately angry person. Yet when we kick a vending machine, it is the obviously justified result of our failing grade on a test, the revocation of our driving license and the machine eating our money for the third time this week. We think of the other person as an evil mutant and ourselves as righteous actors.

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