James spends months developing a theory of decision making.But in an experimental test,only half of the participants respond as his theory predicted.James concludes that the rest of the subjects did not understand the directions and proclaims that the experiment is evidence in favor of his theory.This is an example of the ____.
A) confirmation bias.
B) conversion effect.
C) "eureka" phenomenon.
D) gambler's fallacy

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This scenario demonstrates confirmation bias because James is only interpreting the results that support his theory and ignoring the results that do not. He assumes that the subjects who did not respond as predicted simply didn't understand the instructions, rather than considering that his theory may be flawed.

James Spends Months Developing a Theory of Decision Making