Gerard Yoder believes that every time he picks up his daughter, Penny, from school, it brings him good luck. The last time he picked her up from school, he won a lottery ticket. Today, after he received her from school, he reached his office and found out that he has been promoted. Which of the following concepts best describes Yoder's belief?
A) affect intensity
B) illusory superiority
C) bandwagon effect
D) positive bias
E) illusory correlation

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Yoder's belief that picking up his daughter brings him good luck is an example of illusory correlation, where he perceives a relationship between two unrelated events.

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