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Answer the following question:
What is meant by automatic vigilance?
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Solution
Automatic vigilance is the strong tendency to pay attention to undesirable or negative information.
Leon, Oden, and Anderson (1973) in comparative judgments of criminal offenses found that more serious crimes (rape, murder) has more extreme weight than less serious crime (forgery, fraud).
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