<Tr> <Td> Total </Td> <Td> 26 </Td> <Td> 13 </Td> <Td> 39 </Td> </Tr> <P> Each group had the same proportions of positive and negative behaviors, so there was no real association between behaviors and group membership . Results of the study show that positive, desirable behaviors were not seen as distinctive so people were accurate in their associations . On the other hand, when distinctive, undesirable behaviors were represented in the sentences, the participants overestimated how much the minority group exhibited the behaviors . </P> <P> A parallel effect occurs when people judge whether two events, such as pain and bad weather, are correlated . They rely heavily on the relatively small number of cases where the two events occur together . People pay relatively little attention to the other kinds of observation (of no pain or good weather). </P> <P> Most explanations for illusory correlation involve psychological heuristics: information processing short - cuts that underlie many human judgments . One of these is availability: the ease with which an idea comes to mind . Availability is often used to estimate how likely an event is or how often it occurs . This can result in illusory correlation, because some pairings can come easily and vividly to mind even though they are not especially frequent . </P>

What is an example of an illusory correlation