Recently experienced local weather conditions often have a greater impact on people's perceived threat of global climate warming than less memorable scientific data regarding long-term planetary weather trends.This best illustrates the impact of
A) confirmation bias.
B) the framing effect.
C) the availability heuristic.
D) belief perseverance.

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The scenario described is an example of the availability heuristic, which is the tendency to rely on readily available and easily remembered information when making judgments or decisions. In this case, individuals are more likely to be influenced by their personal experiences of recent local weather than by abstract and less memorable scientific data on global climate change.

Recently Experienced Local Weather Conditions Often Have a Greater Impact