Shaun is angry at the way a coworker has treated him. Shaun feels justified in his anger because he believes that anybody would feel the same way if the same thing happened to them. This example reveals Shaun's susceptibility to the:

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The false consensus effect is the tendency to overestimate the extent to which other people share our beliefs and behaviors. In this case, Shaun believes that anyone would feel the same way he does, which is an example of the false consensus effect. The other options (just-world hypothesis, self-serving bias, and fundamental attribution error) do not fit this scenario.

Shaun Is Angry at the Way a Coworker Has Treated