People generally prefer to conserve effort by relying on automatic modes of thought (rather than conscious modes of thought) whenever they can. That is, people tend to ____

a. rely on base rates
b. avoid using scripts
c. make upward comparisons rather than downward comparisons
d. be cognitive misers


D

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