Multiple Choice
For many years,newspapers often mentioned the race of criminal suspects who were NOT white in the articles detailing their crimes.This often led people who were not obviously biased or prejudiced to conclude that there was a relationship between race and criminal behavior.This is one example of
A) the confirmation bias.
B) the hindsight bias.
C) illusory correlation.
D) the representativeness heuristic.
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