Participants in an experiment judged a woman as unfriendly,even though they were told her unfriendliness was part of her trained role in the experiment.This tendency to overemphasize personal factors and underemphasize situational factors is called
A) the fundamental attribution error.
B) action identification.
C) the actor-observer difference.
D) illusion of control.

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The described tendency is known as the fundamental attribution error, which refers to the tendency to overemphasize dispositional or personal factors as explanations for behavior, while underemphasizing situational factors.

Participants in an Experiment Judged a Woman as Unfriendly,even Though