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Question
Answer the following question briefly:
What is meant by the term person positivity bias?
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Solution
It is our tendency to evaluate individuals more positively than we evaluate groups, including the groups to which those individuals belong. Thus, we may have a prejudice against a group, we find that it applies to the group rather than to individual members of the group.
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