If you always blame yourself when a social encounter does not go well, you may have a distortion in thinking known as

a. the fallacy of negative instances.
b. an erotomanic delusion.
c. a self-defeating bias.
d. the Barnum effect.

ANSWER: c

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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