Stockbrokers often believe that their own expertise will enable them to select stocks that will outperform the market average. This belief best illustrates:

a. functional fixedness.
b. confirmation bias.
c. the framing effect.
d. the availability heuristic.
e. overconfidence.


Answer: e. overconfidence.

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