Antonio,who averages 28 points a game for his basketball team,scored only 8 points in tonight's game.The other players believe that he was "slacking off," but in reality he was playing despite an injury.Antonio's teammates have committed

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The teammates are making the fundamental attribution error, which is the tendency to overemphasize dispositional (internal) explanations for someone's behavior while underemphasizing situational (external) explanations. The teammates assumed Antonio was slacking off (dispositional explanation) without considering the situational explanation of his injury.

Antonio,who Averages 28 Points a Game for His Basketball Team,scored