When we attribute the positive attributes of a people from a different racial, cultural, or ethnic group to external causes, but attribute those individuals' negative attributes to internal causes, we are making the ________ error.

A. actor-observer
B. fundamental attribution
C. self-serving
D. ultimate attribution


Answer: D

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