the british police are ill-prepared to deal with their new reality and may need training to reduce fundamental attribution errors when dealing with suspected criminals: "people tend to have a default assumption that what a person does is based more on what "kind" of person he is, rather than the social and environmental forces at work on that person. this default assumption leads to people sometimes making erroneous explanations for behavior."
as malcolm gladwell, author of Blink, explains:...
