<span>When Mary is late coming home from work, John decides that it's because she has lost interest in their relationship. This situation illustrates the Framing effect.</span>
From the situation described in the question, John seems to have fallen prey to the (A) framing effect in seeing his relationship with Mary.
Framing effect is defined as a<em> cognitive error that a person experiences, where an individual is likely to decide on something based on how they are presented</em>. If it is presented in a negative way, the individual will more likely take risk, but if it is presented in a positive way, the individual will less likely to take risk.
1. The revenue of gingerbread decreases as the years go on. 2. Gingerbread was close to reaching $25000 of revenue in 2007 3. Peanut butter had the least amount of revenue