Our tendency to believe that our own behavior reflects external causes and that other people's behavior reflects internal causes is known as ________
A) the actor-observer effect
B) explicit theory formation
C) the fundamental attribution error
D) implicit theory formation
E) the correspondence bias
Answer: A
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