Betty really likes Barney and would like to ask him out. At a party one night, she finds herself alone with him. They talk for a while about nothing in particular, and then both rejoin their friends. Later that evening, Betty thinks to herself, "I can't believe I threw myself at him like that. He probably doesn't want to go out with me-I mean, I made my feelings pretty clear. I feel like such a fool." Betty may have fallen prey to _______.

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Betty may have overestimated how clear her romantic interest was to Barney, a common cognitive bias where individuals believe their social signals are more apparent to others than they actually are. This is known as signal amplification bias.

Betty Really Likes Barney and Would Like to Ask Him