Across Many Different Contexts and Settings, People Prefer to Attribute

question 173

Multiple Choice

Across many different contexts and settings, people prefer to attribute their successes to ability and effort but tend to attribute their failures to bad luck or task difficulty. This is known as ____.

• A)the self-serving bias
• B)correspondence bias
• C)a fundamental attribution
• D)the heuristic effect

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Definitions:

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