Suppose that you get an eerie feeling every time you ride the bus at night. Even if you have never heard about anything scary happening on the bus at night, you might end up using this feeling to form a judgment that riding the bus at night is a bad thing. Forming a judgment in such a way would be consistent with ____.
A)the idea of affective forecasting
B)the idea of affect balance
C)the affect-as-information hypothesis
D)having high emotional intelligence (EQ)

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The affect-as-information hypothesis suggests that people use their emotional states as information when making judgments and decisions, even if those emotions are not directly related to the decision at hand. In this scenario, the eerie feeling serves as an emotional cue that influences the judgment about the safety or desirability of riding the bus at night.

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