Research participants who were asked to choose the most attractive face between two pictures later failed to recognize that their choice had been switched with a different photo. This is an example of which type of inattentional blindness?

The participants did not notice that the face they were shown differed from the one they had chosen. This is called choice blindness: failing to detect a mismatch between your choice and the outcome presented to you. “Change blindness” refers more generally to missing a change in a visual scene.

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