When People in the United States Are Trying to Find

question 159

Multiple Choice

When people in the United States 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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