Blaming the Victim Is the Tendency

question 89

Multiple Choice

Blaming the victim is the tendency:

• A) to blame an innocent victim of misfortune for having somehow caused the problem or for not having taken steps to avoid or prevent it.
• B) in individualistic cultures, to explain the behavior of other people by attributing their behavior to internal, personal characteristics.
• C) to overestimate one's ability to have foreseen or predicted the outcome of an event after it has occurred.
• D) in collectivistic cultures to blame oneself for one's failures while downplaying one's successes.

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