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The Effects of the Affect Huristic
Research shows that when people are favorably disposed toward technology, they rated it as offering large benefits and imposing little risk. The affect heristic simplifies our lives by creating a world that is much tidier than reality. Bad technologies have no benefits and all decisions are easy in the imaginary world we inhabit. An inability to be guided by a healthy fear of bad consequences is a disastrous flaw.