Question

The tendency most people have to discount situational explanations of behavior in favor of personality characteristics or traits is called the __________.

Answer 1

Answer: The correct answer is : Fundamental Attribution Error.

Explanation: In social psychology it is also known as correspondence bias or attribution effect. It is described as the tendency to believe that what people do reflects who they are. Because of the fundamental attribution error, it can be thought that someone does something bad because he is a bad person but he does not think about factors and situations that could have influenced.