The tendency of people to place too much emphasis on personal factors when accounting for other people's actions and too little emphasis on personal factors when accounting for our own actions is known as the ________.

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The tendency described in the question is known as the actor-observer bias. Therefore, the correct answer is A. The self-serving bias refers to the tendency to take credit for our successes and blame others or external factors for our failures. The recency effect and primacy effect refer to phenomena related to memory and the order in which information is presented.

The Tendency of People to Place Too Much Emphasis on Personal