Christopher, who lives in Iowa, is talking about people from Illinois. “We are thrifty, but they are miserly. We are cautious, but they are fainthearted. We are slow to change, but they refuse to ever change at all.” Christopher’s reaction illustrates
a. double-standard thinking.
b. a group attribution error.
c. the ingroup differentiation bias.
d. adherence to the law of small numbers.
e. the outgroup homogeneity bias.
a. double-standard thinking.
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