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A) Fundamental attribution error arises because we tend to infer traits from the social environment.
B) We are likely to attribute our successes to external, situational factors but our failures to internal factors.
C) When we see other people doing things that we do not like, we tend to see them as victims.
D) We are biased toward making dispositional attributions when we explain other people's behavior.


D

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