The tendency to imagine alternative scenarios and outcomes that might have happened, but did not, is called:
A. the base-rate fallacy.
B. automatic thinking.
C. counterfactual thinking.
D. the reflective bias.
Answer: C
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A. males B. females C. children D. older adults
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