You are on a team with two individuals who are difficult.The work has been divided among the three of you and each time your team meets,Janet and Jim disagree about the progress of the team project.Janet is convinced that Jim's lack of progress is because he is inherently lazy and not because of some overwhelming problem with the project itself. Janet seems to be guilty of:
A)self-serving bias.
B)the fundamental attribution error.
C)ethnocentrism.
D)proximity bias.

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Janet is exhibiting the fundamental attribution error by making dispositional attributions about Jim's behavior (i.e. that he is lazy) rather than considering situational factors that may be affecting his progress on the project.

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