The Tendency to Give Too Much Emphasis to Personal Factors

question 99

Multiple Choice

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

• A) the primacy effect
• B) defensive attribution
• C) the fundamental attribution error
• D) the just-world hypothesis

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