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EPPP Psychology

Category - Social and Cultural Bases of Behavior

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Which of the following describes the Actor-Observer Effect:
  1. While evaluating the behavior of others, people overestimate the power of dispositional factors and underestimate the power of situational ones.
  2. People generally tend to attribute their behavior to situational factors while not doing the same to others partaking in the same behavior.
  3. People tend to attribute their own behaviors with negative consequences to situational factors while attributing behaviors with positive outcomes to dispositional factors.
  4. None of the above
Explanation
Answer: B - People generally tend to attribute their behavior to situational factors while not doing the same to others partaking in the same behavior is a correct explanation of the actor-observer effect.

The first and third answer choices are describing fundamental attribution bias and self-serving bias respectively.
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