The Tendency to Give Too Much Emphasis to Personal Factors

question 4

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)fundamental attribution error
• D)the just world hypothesis

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