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74 Rev. Jur. U.P.R. 967 (2005)
Overcoming the Attribution Bias: Incorporating Restorative Justice Processes into the Canadian Criminal Justice System

handle is hein.journals/rjupurco74 and id is 975 raw text is: OVERCOMING THE ATTRIBUTION BIAS: INCORPORATING RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PROCESSES INTO THE CANADIAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM EVA CHIPIUK The reality of life is that your perceptions-right or wrong- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspec- tive of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place. - Roger Birkman I. INTRODUCTION Humans have been described as lay scientists,' methodically searching for causal links to comprehend the connection between the events they experience and the influence others may exert over those events. For example, a car accident occurs in snowy conditions and we attribute the consequences of that accident to the driver's poor driving skills. The theory that has developed for explaining how we interpret such a connection is known as the attribution process. According to this theory, our understanding of others develops from our ability to interact with them and to attribute to them the consequences of an event.2 As a result, in- Second year law student at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Common Law. This paper was further developed and completed while enrolled as an exchange student at the University of Puerto Rico Law School. Keith G. Allred, Anger and Retaliation in Conflict, in THE HANDBOOK OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION: THEORY AND PRACTICE 236, 240 (Morton Deutsch & Peter T. Coleman eds., 2000). 2 Ronal de Sousa, Book Review of Adam Morton's The Importance of Being Understood: Folk Psychology as Ethics, (2002), available at http://www.chass. utoronto.ca/%7Esousa/morton.html. 967

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