One day, a tree on the Lakewood Golf Course was hit by lightning. The following weekend Galen continued his golf game near that tree during a thunderstorm because he was certain that lightning would not strike there twice. Galen's decision was based on
A. gambler's fallacy.
B. probability heuristic.
C. loss aversion.
D. multi-attribute decision making.
Answer: A
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