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Tuan bought a new leather jacket after saving for many months for the luxury purchase. On the first day he went out wearing the new garment, he found a $50 bill on the sidewalk outside of his office. He now refers to the jacket as his "lucky jacket" and believes that it has some magical power to give him good fortune. Tuan’s belief in the jacket’s cosmic ability is an example of________

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Answer: an illusory correlation

Explanation: In simple words, illusory correlation refers to establishing a relation between two variables even when no such relationship exists in real.

In the given case, Tuan bought a jacket and due to some events, started believing that it has magical power in it. Tuan do not have any kind of quantitative or relative proof that the commodity have such magical powers or are somehow related to the good fortune but still he believes that.

Hence we can conclude that Tuan is trying to make an illusory correlation.

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