A local mental health facility looks for extra employees for their crisis line on the night of a predicted full moon.Past experience has led them to believe that a full moon increases levels of suicidal behavior.Even though the employees were presented with evidence showing there is no link between suicide and full moons,they focus on their own evidence of past behavior and ignore the current scientific evidence by exhibiting
A) scientific skepticism.
B) belief perseverance.
C) critical thinking.
D) hindsight bias.
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