The tendency to give too much emphasis to personal factors when accounting for other people's actions is called
A) the primacy effect.
B) defensive attribution.
C) the fundamental attribution error.
D) the just world hypothesis.
Answer: C
Rationale: The fundamental attribution error is a tendency to make internal (dispositional) attributions for others' behaviors while ignoring external (situational) influences.
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