If People Are Given Information That It Was a Situation

question 35

Multiple Choice

If people are given information that it was a situation that caused the person to behave as he or she did, they will adjust their attribution away from internal causes within the personality of the other individual. The authors call this the:

• A) the augmenting rule.
• B) the forgiveness rule.
• C) the least causality rule.
• D) the discounting rule.

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