Lillian is late for an appointment with her business partner,Owen,because of heavy rain.Instead of assuming that Lillian is irresponsible,Owen ascribes her delay to environmental factors.In the context of social thinking,this scenario illustrates:

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Owen has made a situational attribution, meaning he has attributed Lillian's delay to external environmental factors (heavy rain), rather than her internal dispositions or personality traits (such as being irresponsible). This shows that Owen is considering the situation as a possible cause of Lillian's behavior, which is the opposite of the fundamental attribution error. The illusion of transparency refers to the tendency to overestimate how much one's internal state is evident to others, and is not relevant to this scenario.

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