Your brother appears to be self-assured when talking to others. You realize that your brother is more often confident about things rather than accurate about them. Your brother's behavior can be explained by the:

A. overconfidence phenomenon.
B. fundamental attribution error.
C. perseverance bias.
D. correspondence bias.


Answer: A

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