The experiment will be administered on a computer in groups of 6-8 people.
The experiment will be part of several unrelated studies conducted during a single experimental session. The part related to the present experiment will consist of instructions screen where the participants will be explained their task and presented the first scenario (either additives or cities in a war zone). Then they will judge riskiness of 10 words (names of additives or cities) on on a 7-point scales ranging from very safe to very risky. Aftewards, all participants will read scenario about criminals and judge riskiness of 10 names of criminals on a 7-point scales ranging from harmless to very dangerous. All judged items will be presented separately and in a random order.
At the end of the whole experimental session, participants will be given an opportunity to comment on the study and asked to indicate the studied hypothesis
