When your best friend gets divorced, her mother tells her, "I'm sorry for you, but I knew this would eventually happen. You were never really right for each other." This is an example of the:

a) framing effect.
b) availability heuristic.
c) hindsight bias.
d) illusory correlation.


Answer: c

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