Chuan decides to go to a bar on a Friday night. Initially, Chuan is very happy to spend a night out. However, at the bar, he accidentally bumps into another man and spills his drink. This man becomes very angry, because he infers that Chuan intentionally knocked into him in order to spill his drink. In this scenario, what is the best example of a causal attribution?

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The other man's inference that Chuan deliberately knocked him over is the best example of a causal attribution because it is an inference about the cause of an event (the spilled drink) that is based on the behavior of another person (Chuan).

Chuan Decides to Go to a Bar on a Friday