While you are sitting with your friends in the cafeteria at lunchtime, someone who is walking past your table splashes some juice on your shoulder. You get angry because you figure that he was trying to embarrass you in front of your friends. This is an example of

A. egocentric thinking.
B. recursive thinking.
C. a faulty theory of mind.
D. a hostile attribution bias.


Answer: D

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