Corrine sent away for a handwriting analysis, and she couldn't believe it how accurate it was! It told her "you have a great need for other people to like and admire you and a tendency to be critical of yourself."
Psychologists would say that this description fit Corrine because of something known as the
a) self-fulfilling prophecy.
b) correlation fallacy.
c) social-desirability bias.
d) Barnum effect.
D
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