When Joe Shows Up Late to Meet His Friends for Dinner

Multiple Choice

When Joe shows up late to meet his friends for dinner, he explains that he is late because he was held up in traffic. His friend Maggie reminds him, though, that they all drove in the same traffic but that everyone else left early to accommodate the rush hour. Maggie's dismissal of Joe's situational excuse for being late may be the result of which common perceptual error?

A) mindlessness
B) interaction appearance theory
C) mindfulness
D) fundamental attribution error