According to the principle of ______,we tend to classify other people into groups on the basis of certain social characteristics.

A) social learning
B) social categorization
C) self-handicapping
D) self-serving bias

The principle of social categorization refers to the tendency to place individuals into social groups based on shared characteristics such as race, ethnicity, gender, and social class. This is a natural cognitive process that helps us navigate our social world and understand how we fit within it. The other options do not relate to this principle. Social learning involves acquiring new behaviors through observation and imitation, self-handicapping involves creating excuses for potential failure, and self-serving bias refers to the tendency to attribute one's successes to personal factors and failures to external factors.