Subjective Probability: A Judgment of Representativeness

By Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky. 1972

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Continual Prototype Evolution: Learning Online from Non-Stationary Data Streams (2020, methodology): “Similar to representativeness heuristics in human cognition [22], the class prototypes are the cornerstone for nearest neighbor classification.”
Positive cueing: Promoting sustainable consumer behavior by cueing common environmental behaviors as environmental (2008, background): “The perception, in its turn, depends on the use of the accessibilityheuristicandtherepresentativenessheuristic( Kahneman & Tversky, 1972; Tversky & Kahneman, 1973).”
The ‘heuristics and biases’ bias in expert elicitation (2007, background): “‘In his evaluation of evidence, man is apparently not a conservative Bayesian: he is not Bayesian at all’ (Kahneman and Tversky, 1972).”
Re-Conceptualizing Generalization: Old Issues in a New Frame (2008, background): “With regard to thought, cognitive psychologists have demonstrated the tendency of people to generalize on the basis of a few observed characteristics or events, a process called the heuristic of representativeness by Kahneman and Tversky (1972) and Tversky and Kahneman (1974). With regard to the wor”
Children's causal inferences from indirect evidence: Backwards blocking and Bayesian reasoning in preschoolers (2004, background): “Some research has suggested that even adults have trouble with probabilistic reasoning, and often fail to use base rates in their decision-making (see e.g., Kahneman & Tversky, 1973 ).”
Students’ misconceptions of statistical inference: A review of the empirical evidence from research on statistics education (2007, background): “…frequency distribution tasks (e.g., problems in Bar-Hillel, 1979), which deal with the frequency of an event, and sampling distribution tasks (e.g., in Kahneman & Tversky, 1972), which concern the frequency with which particular events’ sample means or proportions fall into specified categories.”
Developing Concepts of Sampling (2000, methodology): “Part 3, designed to investigate students' understanding of the effect of increased sample size in increasing the reliability with which the sample represents the population, was adapted from previous research (Kahneman & Tversky, 1972).”
My Fair Physicist? Feminine Math and Science Role Models Demotivate Young Girls (2012, background): “Young girls may not expect STEM role models to be female (Buck et al., 2002) or feminine (Kessels, 2005), and what is unexpected often feels unlikely (Kahneman & Tversky, 1972).”
Individual Investor Perceptions and Behavior During the Financial Crisis (2013, unknown): “Extreme events such as the 2008–2009 financial crisis, however, may have a strong impact on individual investors because of their salience (Kahneman and Tversky, 1972).”
Diagnostic Expectations and Stock Returns (2019, background): “Kahneman and Tversky (1972) argue that the automatic use of the representativeness heuristic causes individuals to estimate a type as likely in a group when it is merely representative.”
History of Social Psychology: Insights, Challenges, and Contributions to Theory and Application (2010, background): “…analyses of Bem, Jones, Kelley, and the other selfperception and attribution theorists, the work of two Israeli psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, on “heuristics of judgment” (Kahneman & Tversky, 1972, 1973; Tversky & Kahneman, 1973, 1974) began to make its influence felt.”