You and your friend have a fight and say very hurtful things to each other. In judging your own behavior, you say to yourself, "I was justified in saying those things to her because she betrayed me." In judging how your friend acted during the fight, you say, "She had no right to say those things to me. She is a liar and an ungrateful person." In your interpretation of your friend's behavior, you are assigning her a(n) ______ cause.

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You are attributing your friend's behavior to her character or personality, which is an internal cause, rather than to situational factors.

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