Attributions are
a. causes of other people's behavior.
b. inferences that people draw about the causes of behavior and events.
c. the tendency to explain other people's behavior as the result of personal, rather than situational factors.
d. a measure of people's personalities.
B
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a. The two variables will be both positively and negatively correlated. b. The two variables will be uncorrelated. c. The two variables will be negatively correlated. d. The two variables will be positively correlated.