Jim who scored less in a subject regretted for not having studied sufficiently and wished he could have been more serious during his exams. This is an example of
A) a representative heuristic.
B) counterfactual thinking.
C) an illusory correlation.
D) the overconfidence phenomenon.

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Jim's regret and wish for a different outcome indicate counterfactual thinking, which involves imagining alternative outcomes to past events. The other options are not applicable to the scenario described.

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