representativeness heuristic

     

The representativeness heuristic is a heuristic wherein commonality between objects of similar appearance is assume. While often very useful in everyday life, it can also result in neglect of relevant base rates and other errors. The representative heuristic was first proposed by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman.

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