During the Cold War,American students told that an American ice-breaker had saved a group of trapped whales attributed the crew's behaviour to positive motives.Students told that a Soviet ice-breaker had saved the whales made negative attributions,such as,"they saved the whales so that they could slaughter them and eat them later." According to your text,the motives behind this kind of attributional bias also account for the finding that
A) Hindus living in India were more likely than Americans living in the United States to make situational explanations for their friends' behaviour.
B) Canadian students said that they were less likely to get AIDS than the average student, but Japanese students said that bad things were more likely to happen to them than to the average student.
C) athletes and coaches often attribute successes to their own behaviour and losses to external factors.
D) American students assumed the author of a pro-Castro essay really had pro-Castro attitudes, even when told that the author had no choice about what position to take in the essay.
E) Americans students believe they are less likely to achieve higher grades than their peers, but Canadian students believe they are more likely to achieve higher grades than their peers.
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