Blanchard-Fields and colleagues found that when participants were presented with different situations with positive or negative outcomes (events that were ambiguous as to what was the specific cause of the outcome), older adults were more likely to make __________ about the main character.

A. situational attributions
B. causal attributions
C. interactive attributions
D. dispositional attributions


Answer: D

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