Availability Heuristics are used in "situations in which people assess the frequency of a class or the probability of an event by the ease with which instances or occurences can be brought to mind" (Tversky & Kahneman, 1974, p. 1127)
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
Brief quotations are reproduced for identification purposes under fair use / fair dealing doctrine
Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1973). Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability. *Cognitive psychology*, *5*(2), 207-232. <https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0285(73)90033-9>
<aside> 💡
Something wrong? Tell us here.
</aside>