When people in Western countries try to find reasons for someone else's behavior, they tend to ________
a. ignore dispositional attributions in favor of situational attributions.
b. leap to the attribution that people's behaviors correspond to the context.
c. explore the personality traits and the environmental constraints to derive an explanation.
d. overestimate personality traits and underestimate the influence of the situation.
Answer: d
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