Judgments of and by representativeness


Book: 
Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
Authors: 
Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D.
Editors: 
Kahneman, D., Slovic, P., & Tversky, A.
Type: 
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Pages: 
84-98
Year: 
1982
Publisher: 
Cambridge University Press
Place: 
New York
Abstract: 

The first part of this chapter is concerned with the nature of the representativeness relation and and also with the conditions on which the concept of representativeness is usefully invoked to explain intuitive predictions and judgments of probability. In the second part of the chapter we illustrate the contrast between the logic of representativeness and the logic of probability in judgments of the likelihood.

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