When an Individual Has a Tendency to Attribute Her Success

question 48

Multiple Choice

When an individual has a tendency to attribute her success to personal factors and her failure to situational factors, the individual is demonstrating

• A) the fundamental attribution bias.
• B) the self-effacing bias.
• C) the self-serving bias.
• D) defensive attribution.

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