Linus has always enjoyed long walks through the woods, but recently, after several highly publicized attacks on hikers by bears, he finds himself fearful of going on a hike. Linus is using a(n) ____

a. ?affective heuristic
b. ?biased heuristic
c. ?inductive heuristic
d. ?availability heuristic


ANSWER:
d

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