Identify a true statement about distinctive events and illusory correlations.

A. The co-occurrence of two distinctive events is barely noticeable.
B. People predominantly lack sensitivity to distinctive events.
C. Attention to unusual occurrences creates illusory correlations.
D. Under illusory correlation, the co-occurrence of two unusual events is less noticeable than each of the times the unusual events do not occur together.


Answer: C

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