Jamie doesn't worry very much about contracting HIV from unprotected sex, saying "I'm a good guy. It can't happen to me." This is an example of
a. an imaginary audience.
b. a personal fable.
c. an A not B error.
d. hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
b
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