Jonas bought a new leather jacket after saving for many months for the luxury purchase.On the first day he went out wearing the new garment,he found a $50 bill on the sidewalk outside of his office.He now refers to the jacket as his "lucky jacket" and believes that it has some magical power to give him good fortune.Jonas's belief in the jacket's cosmic ability is an example of
A)the availability heuristic.
B)an illusory correlation.
C)selective attention.
D)the falsification principle.

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Jonas's belief in the jacket's ability to bring him good fortune is based on a coincidence (finding money on the same day he wore the jacket) and not on any logical or empirical evidence. This is an example of an illusory correlation, where a perceived relationship between two events or conditions is actually the result of chance or other factors.

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