The tendency to attribute your success to dispositional factors and your failures to situational factors is called
a. the self-fulfilling prophecy.
b. the self-serving bias.
c. the fundamental attribution error.
d. in-group bias.
Answer: b. the self-serving bias.
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a. not do well in the United States. b. do better if she goes back to her country of origin. c. do quite well in the United States. d. struggle to adapt to the changes in her life.
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