If one is acting according to the principle of defensive attribution, what is the most likely attribution of a person who sees a homeless man? a. “society should have done more to him.” b. “i wonder if the shelters turned him out? ” c. “boy, that guy has rotten luck.” d. “great, another lazy drifter in town.”

The answer is option d, "Great, another lazy drifter in town."

The defensive attribution hypothesis (or inclination, hypothesis, or basically cautious attribution) is a social mental term from the attributional approach alluding to an arrangement of convictions utilized as a shield against the dread that one will be the casualty or reason for a genuine accident.