John Observed Gracie, an Executive for a Large Accounting Firm

John observed Gracie, an executive for a large accounting firm, behave in an aggressive and pushy manner with her subordinates. John now believes that most women executives are basically aggressive and pushy with their subordinates. John's overestimation of the relationship between women executives and the social traits of "pushy" and "aggressive" is referred to as

A) an illusory correlation.
B) a contravened stereotype.
C) a heuristic overbias.
D) a self-serving attribution.

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