When john worries about getting bit by a shark when swimming at the beach, but doesn't worry about getting cancer from the cigarettes he smokes, he is Exaggerating the improbable.
Exaggeration is a technique for stressing something more strongly than it actually is, either by making it better or worse. Exaggeration can be used to convey the significance of something, leave a lasting impression, or arouse more intense emotions than would otherwise be the case.
Amplification of the unlikely Exaggerated likelihood of extremely uncommon events
Availability heuristic tendency to evaluate an event's likelihood based on how simple it is to come up with instances (memory)
Heuristic for effect tendency to estimate subjectively rather than based on logic
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