When People in Western Nations Are Trying to Find Reasons

question 133

Multiple Choice

When people in Western nations are trying to find reasons for someone else's behaviour, they tend to:

• A) explore the personality traits and the environmental constraints to derive an explanation.
• B) ignore dispositional attributions in favour of situational attributions.
• C) overestimate personality traits and underestimate the influence of the situation.
• D) leap to the attribution that people's behaviours correspond to the context.