Mr. Brown missed his flight by five minutes. "If only I hadn't misplaced my cell phone on the way out of the house . . . .Why couldn't the cabbie have taken the expressway instead of Forest Boulevard . . . I wish we hadn't got stuck behind that bus on 14th . . ," Mr. Brown keeps thinking. Mr. Brown is demonstrating:
A)counterfactual thinking
B)the confirmation bias
C)source monitoring processes
D)the saliency bias

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Mr. Brown is demonstrating counterfactual thinking, which involves imagining alternative scenarios and outcomes that could have happened, but didn't. His thoughts about what could have been done differently to avoid missing his flight are examples of this.

Mr Brown Missed His Flight by Five Minutes