During a Girl Scout picnic,Lavinia was randomly selected to be on one baseball team and Carla on the opposing team.Before the game started,Lavinia and Carla were each convinced that her team was the better one.The girls' beliefs best illustrate
A) outgroup homogeneity.
B) the just-world phenomenon.
C) scapegoating.
D) ingroup bias.

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The girls' beliefs about their own team being superior is an example of ingroup bias, which refers to the tendency to favor one's own group over other groups.

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