Dr. Jones believes that when his diagnoses and treatments of patients go well it is because he is a great doctor. If something goes wrong, though, he says it is because the patients were not 100% truthful or a previous doctor made an error. This is an example of:
A. illusory correlation.
B. hindsight bias.
C. self-serving bias.
D. belief perseverance.
Answer: C
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A. a normal genotype. B. a 47,XYY genotype. C. androgen insensitivity syndrome. D. Klinefelter syndrome.
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a) Making people happy b) Intergroup contact c) Making people more aware of a superordinate inclusive identity d) All of the above