When a large-scale layoff is announced in Bill's company, all the workers including Bill begin to complain.According to attribution theory, we would evaluate Bill's behavior as exhibiting
A) high consistency.
B) high distinctiveness.
C) low consistency.
D) low consensus.
E) high consensus.

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High consensus is observed when a behavior is common across many people in a given situation. In this case, since all workers including Bill begin to complain following the layoff announcement, it indicates that the behavior (complaining) is widely shared among the workers, thus showing high consensus.

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