It is 10:00 a.m. and Jamie, an American college student, is dragging himself to his next class to turn in a paper for which he pulled an all-nighter
Through a haze of exhaustion, on the way to class he sees a student slip and fall down. How would Jamie be most likely to interpret the cause of the student's behavior?
a. Jamie's attribution will most heavily be influenced by his own personality.
b. Given what we know about Jamie's current cognitive capacity and cultural background, he will likely assume that the student fell because he or she was clumsy.
c. Jamie would probably attribute the cause to the situation, such as the fact that it was raining and the sidewalks were slippery.
d. Jamie would be so tired that he would not make any causal attributions.
Answer: B
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