Suppose that you are watching television just after a Congressional election, and your favorite candidate has won—although the election was close. You say to a friend, “Well, I was really quite confident that he would win.” This might be an example of

a. a conjunction fallacy
b. the framing effect
c. the hindsight bias
d. the representativeness heuristic


Answer: c. the hindsight bias

Psychology

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