Goldberg (1978)found That 85 Percent of Participants Selected More Traits

question 19

Multiple Choice

Goldberg (1978) found that 85 percent of participants selected more traits to describe others than to describe themselves.What does this suggest about the fundamental attribution error?

• A) We make the fundamental attribution error for others,but not for ourselves.
• B) We make the fundamental attribution error for ourselves,but not for others.
• C) We make the fundamental attribution error for ourselves as well as for others.
• D) We make the fundamental attribution error for ourselves as well as for others,but it is much stronger when explaining our own behaviour.

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