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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Hostile attribution bias is the tendency to interpret others' behaviors as having hostile intent, even when the behavior is ambiguous or benign. In this scenario, Jayson assumes the person who bumped into him did so with the intention to be rude, which is a classic example of hostile attribution bias.

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