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social science subjects > psychology > social psychology > judgment and decision making > representativeness heuristic

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representativeness heuristic  

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  • This entry provides a brief explanation and background for the representativeness heuristic, a cognitive process hypothesized to underlie people's intuitive judgments of probability. Heuristics and Biases The representativeness heuristic is a theoretical construct that forms part of the influential heuristics and biases framework for explaining intuitive judgment in humans pioneered by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in the 1970s. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Mind; Representativeness Heuristic]

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