Question

When saqui breaks up with her boyfriend, her best friend bradan asks her to go out with him. at the same time, she meets another fascinating man who also asks her out. bradan and the new man each have different attractive qualities. after deciding to date the new guy, saqui finds that she no longer likes bradan. even though he wants to continue their friendship, she keeps finding more things to dislike about him. saqui is experiencing:

a. mere-exposure.
b. attributional bias.
c. postdecisional dissonance.
d. emergence of an implicit attitude?

Answer 1

It is B attributional bias. In psychology, an attribution bias or attributional biasis a cognitive bias that refers to the systematic errors made when people evaluate or try to find reasons for their own and others' behaviors.