Personal rituals, such as counting to ten, meditating for a moment, and engaging in superstitious behaviors like crossing your fingers before moving ahead,
a. can be calming and prevent one from making decisions based on intensive emotions.
b. are examples of a person using the representativeness heuristic.
c. can lead to functional fixedness in problem-solving.
d. are characteristic of eccentric, highly creative persons who are emotionally disturbed.
A
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