Your Friend Roger Has Recently Been Promoted at Work to Senior

question 110

Multiple Choice

Your friend Roger has recently been promoted at work to senior vice president. If you made an internal, unstable attribution for Roger's promotion, what might you be thinking?

• A)"Roger probably worked really hard to get that promotion!"
• B)"Roger is just brilliant; everything he touches turns to gold!"
• C)"Well, there is nothing that special about Roger; anyone with his background could have gotten that position."
• D)"There is nothing that special about Roger at all; I think the promotion was a fluke; he seems to have gotten plain lucky!"

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