People are most likely to engage in the ultimate attribution error when
A) the ingroup and outgroup are generally friendly toward one another.
B) emotions do not come into play.
C) they are highly prejudiced.
D) group membership is based on a basic social category.

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The ultimate attribution error involves making dispositional attributions for the behaviors of outgroup members and situational attributions for the behaviors of ingroup members. This bias is more likely to occur when individuals are highly prejudiced towards the outgroup.

People Are Most Likely to Engage in the Ultimate Attribution