The perception that psychological research findings merely verify our commonsense understanding is most clearly facilitated by

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Hindsight bias is the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that we would have predicted it beforehand. This bias often leads us to overestimate the accuracy of our commonsense understanding and to believe that psychological research is merely confirming what we already knew.

The Perception That Psychological Research Findings Merely Verify Our Commonsense