Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

A. Tversky; D. Kahneman

DOI:10.1126/science.185.4157.1124

Corpus ID: 143452957

Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

@article{Tversky1974JudgmentUU,
  title={Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases},
  author={A. Tversky and D. Kahneman},
  journal={Science},
  year={1974},
  volume={185},
  pages={1124 - 1131}
}

A. Tversky, D. Kahneman

Published 1974

Psychology

Science

This article described three heuristics that are employed in making judgements under uncertainty: (i) representativeness, which is usually employed when people are asked to judge the probability that an object or event A belongs to class or process B; (ii) 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; and (iii) adjustment from an anchor, which is usually employed in… CONTINUE READING

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