The tendency of a person to perceive that his or her own views are representative of what
others also perceive is called
a. the representativeness heuristic.
b. the actor-observer effect.
c. the false consensus effect.
d. the self-serving bias.
e. the fundamental attribution error.
c. the false consensus effect.
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