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When we incorrectly infer that someone’s behavior is caused by their dispositions, we fall prey to what is called the

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This question lacks options, options are:

A.Overjustification error

B.Self-serving bias error

C.Attribution error

D.Fundamental attribution error

The correct answer is D.

Step-by-step explanation:

The fundamental attribution error consists of a tendency that we have to attribute the causes of the actions of others to their personality and not to their circumstances. And from our actions, to circumstantial causes, not to our way of being, that is, the actions of a person we tend to attribute them to some predisposition, personality or internal factor of the same, underestimating or omitting the impact of the context of the action. The fundamental attribution error is common, it is an operational characteristic of common sense, it is the way in which, from the cultural framework, actions are explained.

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