When people in Western countries try to find reasons for someone else's behaviour, they tend to:
A) ignore dispositional attributions in favour of situational attributions.
B) leap to the attribution that people's behaviours correspond to the context.
C) explore the personality traits and the environmental constraints to derive an explanation.
D) overestimate personality traits and underestimate the influence of the situation.

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Research has shown that people in Western countries tend to overestimate personality traits and underestimate the influence of the situation when trying to find reasons for someone else's behavior. This is known as the fundamental attribution error.

When People in Western Countries Try to Find Reasons for Someone