Jayson is eating lunch alone at a restaurant. He sees two people talking animatedly, and interprets it as arguing. Jayson is exhibiting the ____

a. hostile attribution bias
b. hostile perception bias
c. hostile expectation bias
d. indirect expectation bias


B

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