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Reimer, Torsten; Katsikopoulos, Konstantinos V. – Cognitive Science, 2004
Goldstein and Gigerenzer (2002) [Models of ecological rationality: The recognition heuristic. "Psychological Review," 109 (1), 75-90] found evidence for the use of the recognition heuristic. For example, if an individual recognizes only one of two cities, they tend to infer that the recognized city has a larger population. A prediction…
Descriptors: Inferences, Heuristics, Decision Making, Group Dynamics