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.In this experiment, how could people have avoided the fundamental attribution error? They could have assumed

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By assuming nothing and rating the essay writer's attitude at the midpoint, participants would avoid making assumptions about the writer's true beliefs, thus avoiding the fundamental attribution error.

Recall That Even When Participants in an Experiment Conducted by Jones