A Student Learns About the Results of Milgram's Study of Obedience

question 60

True/False

A student learns about the results of Milgram's study of obedience and says,"Those participants were so cruel! I'm not cruel,so I would never deliver shocks to another person." This student is committing the fundamental attribution error.

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