Rhys submits a major report to his boss ahead of the deadline.His boss assumes that Rhys is conscientious rather than that he simply had more time than usual to devote to the assignment.This example illustrates the:

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The fundamental attribution error refers to the tendency to overemphasize dispositional (internal) explanations for someone's behavior, rather than situational (external) factors that may also have contributed. In this case, the boss assumes that Rhys's behavior (submitting the report ahead of the deadline) is due to his conscientiousness (a dispositional factor), when it could also have been influenced by having more time than usual to devote to the assignment (a situational factor).

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