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Michael Writes for the School Newspaper

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Michael writes for the school newspaper.His editor often assigns him topics to write about and specifies what position Michael should take on the topic.Michael's girlfriend, Brittany, knows this but still criticizes Michael after reading an article in which he advocates raising student tuition.Michael claims that Brittany is committing the fundamental attribution error, which means that she did which of the following?


A) Brittany assumed that Michael was not really in favor of the tuition increase and agreed that Michael only wrote the article because the editor asked him to write it.
B) Brittany thought that Michael was behaving in a contradictory way by writing a pro-tuition increase article while believing the opposite.
C) Brittany thought that Michael's perspective on tuition increases depended on the perspectives of people around him.
D) Brittany ignored the fact that Michael was asked by the editor to write the article and asserted that Michael wrote it only because he is personally in favor of tuition increase.
E) Brittany thought that Michael's perspective on tuition increases was due to both situational and dispositional attributions, in equal amounts.

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