Kaleem enters a classroom just as another student delivers the punchline of a very funny joke, and the room bursts into laughter. Kaleem quickly checks that his shirt is buttoned properly and that no toilet tissue is stuck to his shoe. Realising the class is not laughing at him, he sits down and asks a classmate to repeat the joke. What does this illustrate?
Correct answer A. An egocentric bias
Explanation
The egocentric bias is the tendency to see ourselves as the centre of events and to assume others' actions concern us, as when Kaleem believed the laughter was aimed at him.
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