Our tendency to perceive the actions of others as caused by their dispositions or personality rather than perceiving the cause of their actions as the situation they are in is known as ________
A) a self-serving bias
B) perceptual salience
C) correspondence bias
D) the consistency effect
E) the actor-observer effect
Answer: C
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What will be an ideal response?
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