“did a bad thing” → “bad person” may not be a bucket error, it may be an actual inference (if “bad person” is defined as “person who does bad things”), or a useless category (if “bad person” has no actual meaning).
This question seems to be “fear of attribution error”. You know you have reasons for things you do, others assume you do things based on your nature.
Yeah, I think the overall fear would be something like “I made a mistake but now overall people will judge me as a bad person” where “bad person” is above some threshold of doing bad. Indeed, each bad act is an update towards the threshold, but the fear is that in the minds of others, a single act will be generalized and put you over. The “fear of attribution error” seems on the mark to me.
“did a bad thing” → “bad person” may not be a bucket error, it may be an actual inference (if “bad person” is defined as “person who does bad things”), or a useless category (if “bad person” has no actual meaning).
This question seems to be “fear of attribution error”. You know you have reasons for things you do, others assume you do things based on your nature.
Yeah, I think the overall fear would be something like “I made a mistake but now overall people will judge me as a bad person” where “bad person” is above some threshold of doing bad. Indeed, each bad act is an update towards the threshold, but the fear is that in the minds of others, a single act will be generalized and put you over. The “fear of attribution error” seems on the mark to me.