We often tend to see psychological patterns in the pictures that people draw. For example, we might think that suspicious people would tend to draw exaggerated eyes. What error in judgment does this represent?

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This represents the illusory correlation, which is the perception of a relationship between two variables when no such relationship exists. In this case, the assumption that suspicious people draw exaggerated eyes is an example of perceiving a connection without evidence to support it.

We Often Tend to See Psychological Patterns in the Pictures