What do social psychologists call the tendency to rely on internal characteristics for explanations of the behavior of others, while assigning less weight to the influence of the situation?

a) availability heuristic
b) convergent thinking
c) stereotype suppression
d) fundamental attribution error


ANS: D

Psychology

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