Leleti believes that her friend spilled soda all over her backpack in order to get revenge for a remark Leleti made a few days ago, even though her friend claims that the incident was an accident. Leleti is making a:
A) dispositional assumption.
B) causal attribution.
C) third variable assumption.
D) social comparison.
Ans: B) causal attribution.
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