The first big idea in this section is that what is easy to attribute to a person problem is often a situation problem. We’ve all done stupid driving manouveres, not because we are all selfish, stupid people, but because we were in a desperate rush or had a lapse in concentration. Yet when someone else does a stupid driving move, it is easy to brand them as stupid drivers, or selfish idiots. We are frequently blind to the power of situations. This has been labeled Fundamental Attribution Error, in which we are inclined to attribute people’s behaviour to the way they are rather than to the situation they are in. Shaping the path is about making the right behaviours a little bit easier and the wrong behaviours a little bit harder by tweaking the environment. For example, the Haddon Matrix is a framework that provides a way to think systematically about accidents by highlighting three key periods of time (pre-event, event and post-event) and design ways to prevent, minimise and respond to undesired outcomes.
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