Question

While walking down a street, Jonathon accidentally bumps into Jessica who is highly aggressive. She starts yelling at him and hits him because she feels that he bumped into her intentionally. This scenario best exemplifies _____.

Answer 1

Answer: Hostile attributional bias.

Explanation: Hostile attributional bias means when someone easily interprets an unintentional mistake or actions of others to be actions of violence against them.

People with this character of hostile attributional bias tends to easily misinterpret situations and are always eager to quarrel or fight others on slight provocations.

Jessica in the question, possesses the character of hostile attributional bias.