Multiple Choice
Penny is a chronic cigarette smoker. Although she has heard of the research linking smoking to both lung cancer and emphysema she is not worried. Penny's belief that she will not fall ill due to smoking is an example of:
A) the availability heuristic.
B) the representativeness heuristic.
C) the overconfidence phenomenon.
D) hindsight bias.
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