After his football team wins a close game on a very risky play that rarely works, Greg says, "I KNEW that play would win the game for us." In reality, he wasn't at all sure it would work until after the play was completed. His thinking is an example of ________.

A) hindsight bias
B) counterfactual thinking
C) framing
D) the confirmation bias

Hindsight Bias

The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it, often referred to as the "I-knew-it-all-along" phenomenon.

Confirmation Bias

Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.

Counterfactual Thinking

The mental process of imagining alternative scenarios and outcomes that didn't actually happen.