Generally speaking, people who deal with death, such as emergency workers and medical specialists, are far more at ease talking about death than are other members of the general population

Research on the availability heuristic shows that

a. when medical journals contain many articles about a particular disease, physicians are likely to believe that it is easily curable. b. estimates for a country's population are distorted by the frequency with which the country is mentioned in the news. c. more recent events tend to be given relatively little weight in making frequency estimates, compared with events that occurred long ago. d. people almost always select answers that are consistent with deductive reasoning.

According to the research on prospect theory,

a. people generally avoid risks. b. when the situation involves possible losses, people usually seek risks. c. most people can overcome the framing effect because they naturally focus on the risks involved. d. people consistently make decisions that are correct from a statistical point of view.