The familiarity effect is the tendency of people to ________

a. be unable to distinguish between actual experiences and what they have been told.
b. believe that a statement is true simply because it has been repeated a number of times.
c. feel more positive toward a person, item, product, or other stimulus that they have seen often.
d. overestimate their abilities to have predicted an event once the outcome is known.

Answer: c

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