Recall that even when participants in an experiment conducted by Jones and Harris (1967) were told that people were assigned to write an essay sympathetic to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, they still were willing to assume that the essay reflected the writer's true "pro-Castro" attitudes. These findings illustrate __________.

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This scenario illustrates the fundamental attribution error, which is the tendency to overestimate dispositional factors (such as a person's attitudes or personality) and underestimate situational factors (such as the influence of the assigned essay topic) when explaining others' behavior.

Recall That Even When Participants in an Experiment Conducted by Jones