Which of the following represents the fundamental attribution error?
a. you attribute your own behaviour at the party to the situation
b. you attribute the behaviour of someone at a party to their strange personality traits
c. you attribute success to yourself and failure to bad luck
d. you attribute your failure in an exam to the unfairness of the exam
e. you attribute an accident to the carelessness of the driver because it was such a bad accident
Ans: b
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