Lucas is making his way across a busy campus between classes. He notices smoke coming from the side of the cafeteria but figures that someone already called the fire department. What phenomenon does this illustrate?
A) diffusion of responsibility
B) self-serving bias
C) deindividuation
D) just-world hypothesis

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Lucas is relying on the assumption that someone else has already taken responsibility for calling the fire department, which is an example of diffusion of responsibility.

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