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In a famous study, Johnson and Tversky (1983) put participants into either a negative, positive, or neutral mood and asked them to estimate the probabilities of various events. What did they find?


A) Compared to participants in a neutral state, participants in a negative state thought that negative events like diseases were more likely to happen
B) Compared to participants in a neutral state, participants in a positive state were more optimistic in their risk estimates
C) A positive mood caused optimistic people to be even more optimistic and caused pessimistic people to be even more pessimistic; the opposite was true for negative mood
D) Both A and B are true
E) All of the above

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