For many years,newspapers often mentioned the race of criminal suspects who were not white in articles detailing crimes.This often led people who were not obviously biased or prejudiced to conclude that more non-whites committed crimes than whites.This is one example of
A)the representativeness heuristic.
B)an illusory correlation.
C)the confirmation bias.
D)the hindsight bias.

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This is an example of an illusory correlation, which refers to the perceived association between two things that are actually unrelated or have only a weak association. In this case, the mention of race in news articles about crimes created a false impression that non-whites were more likely to commit crimes, even though there was no actual correlation between race and criminal behavior.

For Many Years,newspapers Often Mentioned the Race of Criminal Suspects