Our Inclination to Take Credit for the Positive and Blame

question 36

Multiple Choice

Our inclination to take credit for the positive and blame others for the negative is called

• A) self-serving bias.
• B) fundamental attribution error.
• C) implicit personality theory.
• D) altercasting.

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