When people in the United States are trying to find reasons for someone else's behavior,they tend to:
A)ignore dispositional attributions in favor of situational attributions.
B)leap to the attribution that people's behaviors correspond to the context.
C)explore the personality traits and the environmental constraints to derive an explanation.
D)overestimate personality traits and underestimate the influence of the situation.

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Research has shown that people in the United States tend to make dispositional attributions, overestimating personality traits and underestimating situational factors, when trying to explain someone else's behavior. This is known as the fundamental attribution error.

When People in the United States Are Trying to Find