Blair watches the newscast each evening, with its usual diet of fires and other accidents.
She often eats at Herby's Fried Snacks, a restaurant located in a brick building, despite the fact that her eating there has resulted in bad indigestion several times. She avoids the well-respected Korean restaurant because the Korean restaurant is in a wooden building. Blair's eating habits are probably being guided by ________. a) the availability heuristic
b) an anti-Korean prejudice
c) the anchoring and adjustment heuristic
d) an addiction to fried snacks
Question 2
Some experts have suggested that different types of prejudice may arise because of different emotional responses to the target group. From this perspective, prejudice arising from guilt may result in behaviors that try to ________.
a) avoid feelings of guilt and sympathy for the outgroup
b) harm the outgroup directly
c) protect the ingroup's status position
d) avoid contact with the outgroup