Sports fans tend to attribute their team's victories to ______ factors and their losses to ______ factors.

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Sports fans tend to attribute their team's victories to dispositional factors such as the skill and talent of the players or the good coaching strategy. On the other hand, they tend to attribute losses to situational factors such as bad refereeing or unlucky bounces of the ball. This is known as the fundamental attribution error, where people tend to overemphasize dispositional factors in explaining behavior (in this case, the performance of a sports team) and underemphasize situational factors.

Sports Fans Tend to Attribute Their Team's Victories to ______