Sophia voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. She believes that approximately 90 percent of college students also voted for Obama, when in reality that number is much lower. Sophia's overestimation is consistent with the
a. false-consensus effect.
b. confirmation bias.
c. self-fulfilling prophecy.
d. representativeness heuristic.
a
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