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)

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The risk-as-feelings hypothesis suggests that people's judgments about risk are often influenced more by emotional responses than by objective analysis of the situation, leading to an undue attention to gut reactions.

The Risk-As-Feelings Hypothesis Suggests That ____