1. Risk Perception and Decision Making Strategies
... accurate. Although heuristics such as representativeness can be considered misleading due to a substantial lack of evidential support, they can also be useful in circumstances of environmental uncertainty where less time is available for a cautious, informative analysis to be made. Certainty and uncertainty can also influence risk perception through the affect heuristic. Affect heuristics are based on ... factors were neglected. As people are capable of feeling numerous other emotions such as sadness, a combination of fear and anger, and other background feelings or moods being activated ...
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