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Heuristics, as described by Kahneman, are mental shortcuts that help individuals make decisions quickly and efficiently. These shortcuts allow people to bypass the effortful process of weighing all available information and considering every possible outcome before making a choice. Instead, heuristics provide a simpler way to arrive at a decision by relying on certain rules of thumb or patterns that have proven to be effective in the past. One common heuristic is the availability heuristic, which involves making judgments based on how easily examples come to mind. When faced with a decision or problem, individuals may rely on this heuristic by recalling instances that are readily available in memory, rather than conducting a...
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