While eating at a restaurant, you see a waiter's serving tray tilt and an avalanche of food and beverages splatters on four people. "what a careless, clumsy idiot," you mumble to yourself as you resume eating. you have just committed an attributional bias called: ?

You have just committed an attributional bias called "the fundamental attribution error."

The fundamental attribution error is the inclination individuals need to overemphasize individual qualities and disregard situational factors in judging others' conduct. As a result of the fundamental attribution error, we have a tendency to trust that others do awful things since they are terrible individuals.