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. These findings illustrate

a) the power of distinctiveness information.

b) the fundamental attribution error.

c) a self-serving attribution.

d) a consensus effect.

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Paula Carter

22 September, 21:02

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. These findings illustrate

a) the power of distinctiveness information.

b) the fundamental attribution error.

c) a self-serving attribution.

d) a consensus effect.

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Declan Pacheco · Answer 1

b) the fundamental attribution error.

Explanation:

This concept explains the tendency to underrated a context situation while overestimating the personal or dispositional features of an individual, in other words, is common to look at the people and create preconception about he or she, based mainly on their first sight.