We often tend to see psychological patterns in the pictures that people draw. For example, we might think that suspicious people would tend to draw exaggerated eyes. What error in judgment does this represent?
a. the confirmation bias
b. illusory correlation
c. law of small numbers
d. the my-side bias
Ans: b
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