Question

What is Hostile Attribution Bias?

Options

• A tendency to ignore others' behaviour completely.

• A tendency to interpret others' ambiguous behaviour as hostile.

• A tendency to always trust others' intentions.

• A tendency to forget social interactions.

Answer 1

A tendency to interpret others' ambiguous behaviour as hostile.

Explanation:

Hostile Attribution Bias is an interpretive bias where people assume that others' unclear or ambiguous actions are hostile, even when they may not be.​