Bob tends to wait until the "last minute" to buy Christmas gifts.Unfortunately,this year,by the time he tried to purchase a gift for his wife,the store had closed.He convinced himself that everything in the store was overpriced anyway,so he decided to make a gift for his wife himself.Arguably,Bob is using a type of ________ in order to convince himself that he "never had a chance" to purchase the gift.

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Bob is engaging in counterfactual thinking by convincing himself that he never had a chance to purchase the gift and that everything in the store was overpriced. Instead of accepting responsibility for waiting until the last minute and missing the opportunity to buy a gift, he is creating a counterfactual scenario in his mind where he never had a chance to begin with.

Bob Tends to Wait Until the "Last Minute" to Buy