"If only I had decided to take a different route home, I wouldn't have hit that stupid tree and ended up getting this huge ticket! Argh!" This thought is an example of ____.
A)the false uniqueness effect
B)illusory correlation
C)magical thinking
D)counterfactual thinking

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This thought is an example of counterfactual thinking, which involves imagining alternative scenarios and outcomes that could have happened, but didn't.

"If Only I Had Decided to Take a Different Route