More people have phobias about snakes than about cancer, although cancer is far more likely to negatively affect a person's life. According to your textbook, this occurs because
A) people often have delusions about their susceptibility to illness
B) people rarely see the world in a rational way
C) we are biologically prepared to fear certain stimuli which represented dangers to our ancestors
D) all of the above
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