People Tend to Explain the Causes of Other People's Behavior

question 12

Multiple Choice

People tend to explain the causes of other people's behavior as being the result of their personalities. Thus, if Luke gets a bad grade on a test, it must be because he is stupid. This tendency is called:

• A) the dispositional view
• B) the self-fulfilling prophecy
• C) Aronson's first law
• D) the hindsight effect

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