While Eating at a Restaurant, You See a Waiter's Serving

question 160

Multiple Choice

While eating at a restaurant, you see a waiter's serving tray tilt and an avalanche of food and beverages splatters on four people. "What a careless, clumsy idiot," you mumble to yourself as you resume eating. You have just committed an attributional bias called:

• A)hindsight bias.
• B)the self-serving bias.
• C)the self-effacing bias.
• D)the fundamental attribution error.

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