Suppose that you get a creepy 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 current emotional state as information to make judgments and decisions, even if the emotion is not directly related to the decision at hand.

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