"Belief in a just world" is best characterized as a form of

a. perceptual bias.
b. availability heuristic.
c. defensive attribution.
d. fundamental attribution error.


Answer: C

Psychology

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a. agoraphobia c. social phobia b. acrophobia d. claustrophobia

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