If you always blame yourself when a social encounter does not go well, you may have a distortion in thinking known as
A) the fallacy of negative instances.
B) an erotomanic delusion.
C) a self-defeating bias.
D) the Barnum effect.

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The given scenario suggests that the individual may have a self-defeating bias, which refers to the tendency to attribute negative events to internal and stable factors such as personal flaws. The other options do not seem relevant to the given scenario.

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