The representativeness heuristic may lead to errors such as activating stereotypes and inaccurate judgements of others ( Haselton et al ., 2005, p . 726 ).
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After that research was conducted, Davidson ( 1995 ) was interested in exploring how the representativeness heuristic and conjunction fallacy in children related to children s stereotyping.
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System 1 includes simple heuristics in judgment and decision-making such as the affect heuristic, the availability heuristic, the familiarity heuristic, and the representativeness heuristic.
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Tversky and Kahneman explained these results as being caused by the representativeness heuristic, according to which people intuitively judge samples as having similar properties to their population without taking other considerations into effect.
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The representativeness heuristic is also an explanation of how people judge cause and effect : when they make these judgements on the basis of similarity, they are also said to be using the representativeness heuristic.
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The representativeness heuristic is also an explanation of how people judge cause and effect : when they make these judgements on the basis of similarity, they are also said to be using the representativeness heuristic.
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The authors of one such study wanted to understand the development of the heuristic, if it differs between social judgments and other judgments, and whether children use base rates when they are not using the representativeness heuristic.
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The authors also found that children use idiosyncratic strategies to make social judgments initially, and use base rates more as they get older, but the use of the representativeness heuristic in the social arena also increase as they get older.
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The use of anchoring-and-adjustment, framing and representativeness heuristics provides fertile grounds for re-wiring the decision making processes to include either positive or mitigating mental models of a given concept or set of related concepts.
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Research suggests that use or neglect of base rates can be influenced by how the problem is presented, which reminds us that the representativeness heuristic is not a " general, all purpose heuristic ", but may have many contributing factors.
