Joyce finds that the members of the project team to which she has been assigned in her management class are all athletes on the college's football and basketball teams.She immediately considers dropping the class because she thinks her experience with that team will be negative.Joyce is likely to be reacting to a
A) negativity bias.
B) stereotype.
C) self-serving bias.
D) semantic memory.
E) fundamental attribution bias.

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Joyce is making assumptions about the behavior, attitudes, and characteristics of the project team members based solely on their status as athletes on the football and basketball teams. This is an example of stereotyping, which involves making generalized and often negative assumptions about individuals based on group membership.

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