The ________ bias can explain why managers doing performance appraisals give more weight to recent employee behaviours than to behaviours of 6 or 9 months earlier.
A) self-serving
B) availability
C) distinction
D) confirmation
E) hindsight

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The availability bias occurs when individuals make judgments about the likelihood of an event based on the ease with which they can retrieve examples or instances of that event from memory. In performance appraisals, managers may rely too heavily on recent events because they are more easily recalled than events from further back in time.

The ________ Bias Can Explain Why Managers Doing Performance Appraisals