Burger and Pavelich (1994) Found That Voters Were More Likely

Multiple Choice

Burger and Pavelich (1994) found that voters were more likely to attribute the outcome of an election to the candidate's personal traits and positions the day after a presidential election, and to the nation's economy a year after the election. This represents which of the following explanations for the fundamental attribution error?

A) Misattribution is particularly less likely when men are in positions of power.
B) We observe others from a perspective that is similar to the way we observe ourselves.
C) The passage of time decreases the tendency toward the attribution error.
D) When explaining someone's behavior, we often overestimate the impact of the situation.