The perception that psychological research findings merely verify our commonsense understanding is most clearly facilitated by:

Hindsight bias

Explanation:

Hindsight bias is a phenomenon in which people saw an event in a more predictable manner rather than in its real form. People guess before the event could take place. Even no one knows that in reality what will happen. When something happens people will say that they knew about it, they predict it before the event could happen.

It is also called i knew it all phenomena. It could happen differently in different situations such as it will be different from political events from sports events. In a researcher, it has been seen that people may strongly predict the event before it could happen.  

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