Derek always arrives late for meetings and conferences. he believes that everyone else will also take some time to arrive. in this scenario, derek's perception is primarily influenced by

projection

Explanation:

there are no options provided but you can choose among the following gender-neutral pronouns: zir, hir, eir, vis, tem, eir.

in the normal course of maintaining a pronoun-antecedent agreement, we could have used the words his or her but since we are also required to use gender-neutral language, we need to replace it with its equivalent gender-neutral pronoun.