Recall That Dan Gilbert Studied Why People Tend to Attribute

question 5

Multiple Choice

Recall that Dan Gilbert studied why people tend to attribute others' behaviors to dispositional factors.According to his theoretical framework, this pattern of attribution occurs because people tend to

• A) consider a person's behavior and his or her situation simultaneously.
• B) be emotionally invested in explaining others' behaviors in terms of stable personal characteristics.
• C) make initial dispositional inferences without later adjusting them on the basis of situational information.
• D) have difficulty identifying what other people's behaviors signify.

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