Recall That Even When Participants in an Experiment Conducted by Jones

question 178

Multiple Choice

Recall that even when participants in an experiment conducted by Jones and Harris (1967) were told that people were assigned to write an essay sympathetic to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, they still were willing to assume that the essay reflected the writer's true "pro-Castro" attitudes. These findings illustrate __________.

• A) the power of distinctiveness information
• B) the fundamental attribution error
• C) a self-serving attribution
• D) a consensus effect

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