When people explain their own behavior by making a situational attribution and the behavior of others by making a dispositional attribution it is called
a. stereotyping.
b. the fundamental attribution error. c. self-serving bias.
d. self-fulfilling prophecy.
e. the actor-observer effect.
e
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