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...

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cascades mediated by the availability heuristic, with the addition of reputational cascades. The availability cascade concept has been highly influential...

familiarity heuristic was developed based on the discovery of the availability heuristic by psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman; it happens when...

its availability, they are using the availability heuristic. When an infrequent event can be brought easily and vividly to mind, this heuristic overestimates...

The availability heuristic (also known as the availability bias) is the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of events with greater "availability" in...

In mathematical optimization and computer science, heuristic (from Greek εὑρίσκω "I find, discover") is a technique designed for problem solving more...

of examples. The availability heuristic operates on the notion that, "if you can think of it, it must be important". The availability of consequences associated...

simulation heuristic was first theorized by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky as a specialized adaptation of the availability heuristic to explain...

some way. There is no single cause for this cognitive bias; the availability heuristic, self-serving bias, and naïve realism have been suggested as at...

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development in the early 1980s of a concept known as the availability heuristic. In the theory, "availability" is defined as the tendency to judge the likelihood...

example, people may judge the reliability of evidence by using the availability heuristic that is, how readily a particular idea comes to mind. It is also...

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are used to make decisions in lieu of conscious reasoning. The availability heuristic occurs when people estimate the probability of an outcome based...

catalog of biases which recur frequently in human thought. The availability heuristic, for example, is the tendency to overestimate the importance of...

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The representativeness heuristic is used when making judgments about the probability of an event being representional in character and essence of a known...

novices are predisposed to make rare diagnoses because of (a) the availability heuristic ("events more easily remembered are judged more probable") and (b)...

shortcuts (heuristics), including: Availability heuristic — estimating what is more likely by what is more available in memory, which is biased toward...

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bounded rationality include the availability heuristic and representativeness heuristic. The availability heuristic refers to how people tend to overestimate...

evidence. The researchers called it the availability heuristic describing how we assume that the more available some piece of information is to memory...

and behavioral economics. Salience bias is closely related to the availability heuristic in behavioral economics, based on the influence of information vividness...

these biases include the availability heuristic, confirmation bias, and the predictable-world bias. The availability heuristic is regarded as causing the...

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and attention and also to decision making strategies such as the availability heuristic and other cognitive biases. Such heuristics and biases are strategies...

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