The Tendency to Give Too Much Emphasis to Personal Factors

question 56

Multiple Choice

The tendency to give too much emphasis to personal factors when accounting for other people's actions is called

• A)the self-serving bias.
• B)false consensus error.
• C)the fundamental attribution error.
• D)naïve realism effect.

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