8,602 Citations
Availability heuristic in judgments of set size and frequency of occurrence.
- Psychology
- 1993
The availability heuristic has been widely cited as an important factor in the judgment process. However, the evidence that availability is important in judging category size is not fully convincing.…
Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases.
- EconomicsScience
- 1974
Three heuristics that are employed in making judgements under uncertainty are described: representativeness, availability of instances or scenarios, which is often employed when people are asked to assess the frequency of a class or the plausibility of a particular development.
A Replication and Extension of the Inducement of the Availability Heuristic
- Psychology
- 1984
Abstract : The availability of an event in an observer's memory is postulated to be one of the bases for estimates of its frequency of past occurrence or the probability of future occurrence. In a…
The availability heuristic revisited : experienced ease of retrieval in mundane frequency estimates
- Psychology
- 1995
Direct measures of availability and judgments of category frequency
- Psychology
- 1977
Tversky and Kahneman (1973) have proposed that people judge the numerosity of categories by the availability of category instances. The present study tests this hypothesis using several direct…
The availability heuristic revisited: Ease of recall and content of recall as distinct sources of information.
- Psychology
- 2002
According to Tversky and Kahneman's (1973, p. 208) availability heuristic, individuals estimate the frequency of an event or the likelihood of its occurrence “by the ease with which instances or…
How do people judge risks: availability heuristic, affect heuristic, or both?
- PsychologyJournal of experimental psychology. Applied
- 2012
Overall, availability-by-recall, a heuristic that exploits people's direct experience of occurrences of risks in their social network, conformed to people's responses best and found direct experience to carry a high degree of ecological validity (and one that clearly surpasses that of affective information).
The Effect of Task Characteristics on the Availability Heuristic for Judgments under Uncertainty.
- Psychology
- 1983
Abstract : The present study sought to generalize the effect of the availability heuristic to more complex tasks and across various task categories. The experimental design involved the manipulation…
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- Psychology
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A critique of two popular "strength" theories, one which relates recall and recognition to the strength of one and the same memory trace, and another which relates only recognition memory to a similar strength measure are offered.