You find out that Margaret, a woman who was a close friend of yours years ago in grade school, has just come out as a lesbian. When chatting with a friend about this news, you can both recall things Margaret did as a girl that indicated her emerging lesbianism. This might be an example of

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The fact that the individual and their friend were able to recall behaviors from their grade school years that indicated Margaret's eventual coming out suggests that they may be experiencing hindsight bias, which refers to the tendency to perceive events that have already occurred as having been more predictable than they actually were.

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