When People Are Trying to Find Reasons for Someone Else's

question 205

Multiple Choice

When people are trying to find reasons for someone else's behavior, they tend to

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

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Definitions:

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