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Basic Assessments, System One
Basic assessments play an important role in intuitive judgment because they are easily substituted for more difficult questions. Situations are constantly evaluated as good or bad, requiring escape or permitting approach. Good mood and cognitive ease are the human equivalents of assessments of safety and familiarity. Even an imperfect ability to assess strangers confers a survival advantage. It has some influence on how people vote.