The Tendency to Assign External Causes for Your Own Individual

question 79

Multiple Choice

The tendency to assign external causes for your own individual behavior is called the

• A) self-serving bias.
• B) fundamental attribution error.
• C) actor-observer effect.
• D) algebraic impression.

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Definitions:

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