After he finished his speech, Henri's classmate told him that he didn't appear nervous at all-while Henri had been sure the audience could see his hands shaking. Henri's experience illustrates the _____.
A) illusion of transparency
B) importance of audience adaptation
C) debilitation of anxiety
D) application of habituation

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Henri's experience illustrates the illusion of transparency, which is the tendency for people to overestimate the extent to which their internal states (such as nervousness) are visible to others.

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