A friend of yours has joined a controversial doomsday group headed by an individual who claims to be a prophet with divine powers. The head of this group predicts that the world will end on Christmas Eve. When this prophecy proves to be wrong the explanation provided by the head of the group claims, "This was just a dress rehearsal for the real thing-testing your faith." This is Group of answer choices all of the other answers rationalization of disconfirmation vividness effect confirmation bias PreviousNext

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Aldo Gates

14 May, 16:00

A friend of yours has joined a controversial doomsday group headed by an individual who claims to be a prophet with divine powers. The head of this group predicts that the world will end on Christmas Eve. When this prophecy proves to be wrong the explanation provided by the head of the group claims, "This was just a dress rehearsal for the real thing-testing your faith." This is Group of answer choices all of the other answers rationalization of disconfirmation vividness effect confirmation bias PreviousNext

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Fletcher Maddox · Answer 1

rationalization of disconfirmation.

Explanation:

Rationalization of disconfirmation is the act of providing superficial or aberrant explanation about a contradicting evidence as predicted. It occurs when someone gives an alternate explanation about a result which came out to be contradicting or wrong to what they predicted earlier. In the realms cult and prophetic leaders, it is the act of making up excuses or superficial explanation when the evidence or prophesy given by the cult or the prophetic leader does not occur.