When Amir Ran for Class President, It Never Occurred to Him

question 139

Multiple Choice

When Amir ran for class president, it never occurred to him that he could lose. This tendency is known as:

• A) hindsight bias.
• B) the representativeness heuristic.
• C) the availability heuristic.
• D) the overconfidence phenomenon.

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