Our tendency to overestimate our powers of prediction once we know the outcome of a given event is known as:
a. the hindsight bias.
b. common-sense social psychology.
c. the self-fulfilling prophecy.
d. the "déjà vu" effect.
Ans: a. the hindsight bias.
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