Because gun violence is portrayed frequently on television and in movies, people mistakenly assign too high of a probability that they will fall victim to gun violence and too low of a probability of suffering from more likely but less publicized events. This phenomenon illustrates
A) the effect of the availability heuristic.
B) that people suffer from hindsight bias.
C) that events are poorly framed by the media.
D) the self-serving bias at work.
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