During her social psychology course this morning, Leticia learned about the situational obstacles that often prevent people from offering assistance to others in emergency situations. As she is eating lunch with her friends after class, one of them begins coughing and Leticia immediately starts to consider whether her friend is choking and how she will best be able to help her if she is in need
of assistance. Leticia's behavior is most likely the result of
a. counterfactual thinking.
b. actor-observer effect.
c. priming.
d. false-consensus effect.
c
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