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Representativeness heuristic

The representativeness heuristic is used when making judgments about the probability of an event being representational in character and essence of a known prototypical event. It is one of a group of heuristics (simple rules governing judgment or decision-making) proposed by psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in the early 1970s as "the degree…

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Biases attributed to the representativeness heuristic

Base ratePersonality traitMaya Bar-HillelBank tellerProbability theory
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Works by Kahneman and Tversky

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Determinants of representativeness

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Tversky and Kahneman's classic studies

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Determinants of representativeness

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Biases attributed to the representativeness heuristic

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Representativeness heuristic

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related to Similarity · 13
Representativeness heuristic → Even, For, In, It, Juslin, Nilsson, Olsson, People, Several, The, This, Use, When
related to Disjunction fallacy · 10
Representativeness heuristic → Bar-Hillel, Evidence, For, From, Hebrew, However, Neter, These, They, Thus
related to Insensitivity to sample size · 5
Representativeness heuristic → If, Kahneman, Representativeness, This, Tversky
related to Base rate neglect and base rate fallacy · 3
Representativeness heuristic → Bayes, However, The
related to External links · 3
Representativeness heuristic → Archived, Powerpoint, Wayback Machine
related to Determinants of representativeness · 1
Representativeness heuristic → The

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