Whenever there is an errand to run around lunchtime, Abdul always volunteers. His boss thinks this is because Abdul is a highly motivated, ambitious worker, but in fact something quite different is happening: Abdul has a crush on a young woman from the same office complex who always eats her lunch in the courtyard, so those lunchtime errands give him a chance to see her and, if he is lucky, talk to her. The boss is subject to the
A) anchoring error.
B) ratio bias effect.
C) self-serving bias.
D) gambler's fallacy.
E) fundamental attribution error.

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The fundamental attribution error suggests that people have a tendency to judge others' behaviors as being internally motivated without considering the possibility of external factors driving the behavior.

Whenever There Is an Errand to Run Around Lunchtime, Abdul