Representativeness Heuristics is when "probabilities are evaluated by the degree to which A is presentative of B, that is, by the degree to which A resembles B" (Tversky & Kahneman, 1974, p. 1124)
Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1974). Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases: Biases in judgments reveal some heuristics of thinking under uncertainty. Science, 185, 1124-1131. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.185.4157.1124
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Kahneman, D., & Tversky, A. (1972). Subjective probability: A judgment of representativeness. *Cognitive psychology*, *3*(3), 430-454. <https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0285(72)90016-3>
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