Jayson is eating lunch alone at a restaurant. He sees two people talking animatedly and interprets it as arguing. Jayson is exhibiting the ____.
A)hostile attribution bias
B)hostile perception bias
C)hostile expectation bias
D)indirect expectation bias

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Jayson is exhibiting the hostile perception bias, which is the tendency to perceive social interactions as aggressive or hostile, even when they are not.

Jayson Is Eating Lunch Alone at a Restaurant