Jayson is walking down a busy sidewalk, when someone going the opposite direction bumps into him. Jayson thinks the person meant to bump him to be rude. Jayson is most clearly exhibiting the ____.
A) hostile attribution bias
B) hostile expectation bias
C) hostile perception bias
D) indirect perception bias

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The hostile attribution bias refers to the tendency to interpret ambiguous actions of others as intentionally hostile or aggressive. Jayson's interpretation of the person bumping into him as intentionally rude is an example of this bias.

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