Diya and Pierre are the candidates to lead their school's basketball team. Diya knows that Pierre will be selected as the team captain as he is a better player than she is. However, Diya is selected as the team captain because Pierre is unable to turn up on the day of the selection. Later, Diya boasts to her friends that she knew it all along that she will be selected as the team captain. In the context of social psychology, this scenario exemplifies a phenomenon called:____________

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Answer:

The correct answer to the following question will be "Hindsight bias".

Explanation:

  • Hindsight bias is indeed a concept used in sociology to describe the tendency of people to overstate their ability to anticipate a result that couldn't have been expected.
  • It leads you to see things as more inevitable than what they are. After such an incident, people often wonder if they knew the result of the incident until it occurred, and can cause a loss in memory.

The above passage thus relates to the Hindsight bias and is the right answer.

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