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When explaining other people’s behavior, the tendency to overemphasize personality traits and underestimate situation factors is referred to as the:.

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fundamental attribution error

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In explaining other people's behavior, the tendency to overemphasize personality traits and underestimate situational factors. It's an actor/observer bias.

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