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Availability heuristic

The availability heuristic, also known as availability bias, is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision. This heuristic, operating on the notion that, if something can be quickly recalled, it must be important, or at least more important than…

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related to history · 19
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related to Research · 18
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related to Education · 13
Availability heuristic → According, Another, At, Children, Craig, Fox, He, In, Marie Geurten, Most, Students, The, Those
related to Judging frequency and probability · 9
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related to Criminal justice · 8
Availability heuristic → As, But, In, Participants, Respondents, The, This, Would
related to Alternative explanations · 7
Availability heuristic → Based, For, If, Indeed, Much, Schwarz, Wanke
related to Health · 7
Availability heuristic → AIDS, By, Consistent, HIV, Participants, Researchers, These
related to Ease of recall as a critique · 6
Availability heuristic → Kahneman, Many, One, Research, Schwarz, Tversky
related to Explanations · 6
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related to Perceived risk · 6
Availability heuristic → However, If, In, Previous, The, Those

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