Phyllis Stintson Needs to Decide Whether to Start a Campaign

question 13

Multiple Choice

Phyllis Stintson needs to decide whether to start a campaign against deforestation in Indonesia. Though her research team has provided substantial information on the high feasibility of the project, Stintson does not go ahead with the project. If Stintson made her decision by drawing unconscious references from several different experiences in the past, her decision is most likely influenced by which of the following?

• A) optimization
• B) intuition
• C) fundamental attribution error
• D) framing effect
• E) anchoring bias

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