A fellow driver cuts Desislav off in traffic on his way home after work. Desislav attributes the other driver's behavior to a character flaw despite having never met him. The heuristic Desislav used is:
A. self-serving bias.
B. actor/observer bias.
C. in-group bias.
D. out-group bias.
Answer: B
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