Shaun is angry at the way a coworker has treated him.Shaun feels justified in his anger because he believes that anybody would feel the same way if the same thing happened to them.This example reveals Shaun's susceptibility to the:

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Shaun's belief that anybody would feel the same way as him in the same situation indicates that he is prone to the false consensus effect, which is the tendency to overestimate the degree to which other people share our beliefs and behaviors. The other options are not applicable in this scenario. The just-world hypothesis is the belief that people get what they deserve, which is not relevant to this situation. The self-serving bias is the tendency to attribute our successes to ourselves and our failures to external factors, which is not evident in the scenario. The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to overemphasize dispositional (personality) factors and underestimate situational factors in explaining other people's behavior, which is not relevant to Shaun's view of his coworker's behavior.

Shaun Is Angry at the Way a Coworker Has Treated