When people engage in magical thinking, they tend to ________

A) resist suggestions to suppress unwanted thoughts
B) experience mood congruence effects very strongly
C) overuse the representativeness heuristic
D) make compelling assumptions that are not rational
E) create or notice self-fulfilling prophecies


Answer: D

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