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Different Cognitive Biases Can Threaten a Negotiator's Effective Problem Solving

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Different cognitive biases can threaten a negotiator's effective problem solving and creativity.Of those threats,which of the following scenarios best illustrates the illusory correlation bias?


A) A person hears that women living in San Francisco have a higher rate of breast cancer and concludes that living in San Francisco causes breast cancer.
B) A student takes an aptitude test and scores poorly.Later that student learns that the test was mis-scored,but the student still feels like they failed.
C) A person learns that 60% of a country's population is uneducated and that 70% of the crimes in that country are violent,and concludes that uneducated people are responsible for the violent crime rates.
D) A person believes that morally "good" people are likely to win lotteries,and bad people are the victims of crimes

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