You overhear the owner of a car dealership tell the salesperson to raise the price on a car that a customer is interested in buying. The salesperson later successfully convinces the customer to buy the car at the inflated price. You decide that the salesperson is a cheat and attribute his behaviour to his disposition. This is an example of:
a. the fundamental attribution error
b. the covariation principle
c. negativity bias
d. egocentric bias
e. the discounting principle
Ans: a
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