When people are trying 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
Rationale: The fundamental attribution error is a tendency to make internal (dispositional) attributions for others' behaviors while ignoring external (situational) influences.
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