Owl [he/him]

Not really. If you see a stranger kicking a vending machine, there’s a (well-documented!) bias to think “that much be a violent and angry person” instead of “that person is having such a bad day they’re kicking vending machines now.”

You could go dig all the way into material and social situations that caused a person to yada yada yada, but that’s way deeper in.

For the debate bros in the crowd, the error RoomAndBored is pointing out is an example of the fundamental attribution error, also known as correspondence bias.