Raquel buys stock in two different companies. She makes $2,000 from one of these investments, but loses $3,000 on the other one. If you ask Raquel about her stocks, she makes self-serving attributions, saying, "I was very clever to invest in that first company, but I just had bad luck losing so much money with the other one." In other words, she makes ____.
A)internal attributions in both cases
B)external attributions in both cases
C)an internal attribution for the $2,000 earnings, but an external attribution for the $3,000 loss
D)an internal attribution for the $3,000 loss, but an external attribution for the $2,000 earnings

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Raquel attributes her success ($2,000 earnings) to her own cleverness (an internal attribution) but blames her loss ($3,000) on bad luck (an external attribution).

Raquel Buys Stock in Two Different Companies