The risk-as-feelings hypothesis suggests that ____
a. when evaluating risk, people tend to focus on the safe features of a situation (rather than the unsafe features)
b. when evaluating risk, people completely disregard the probabilities of safe or unsafe outcomes actually occurring
c. people's judgments about risk are overly conscious (with not enough attention paid to automatic assessments)
d. people's judgments about risk are overly emotional (with undue attention paid to gut reactions)
D
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a. inoculation. b. forewarning. c. the sleeper effect. d. psychological reactance.
If a woman has a "high?risk" form of human papillomavirus (HPV), what should she be especially concerned about?
a. Developing genital warts b. Developing hepatitis c. Developing cervical cancerand possibly vaginal,vulvar, and anal cancers d. Developing neurological impairment