medium · MCAT psych-soc
A physician attributes a patient's failure to follow a medication regimen to the patient's 'unreliable personality,' while the patient attributes the failure to 'unaffordable drug costs.'
Which social psychological concept best explains the difference in these two attributions?
- The actor-observer bias.
- Self-serving bias.
- Confirmation bias.
- The fundamental attribution error.
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