Judgements under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases

By J. Becker, Deanna Kuhn. 1984

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Exploitation or exploration in service business development? : Insights from a dynamic capabilities perspective (2010, background): “Managers, for example, overemphasize obvious and tangible characteristics (Kahneman et al., 1982) and tend to sense the more obvious product opportunities in favor of the less tangible and obvious service opportunities (Gebauer et al.”
One and Done? Optimal Decisions From Very Few Samples (2014, background): “Such a sampling scheme predicts some forms of availability effects (Tversky & Kahneman, 1974)—mental over-representation of the possibility of events with extreme outcomes.”
The Psychological Barriers to Performance Management (2002, background): “The "availability heuristic" of cognitive psychology suggests that people generalize from easily available information (Tversky & Kahneman, 1973, 1974).”
Probability, confirmation, and the conjunction fallacy (2008, methodology): “Three examples taken by the seminal work of Tversky and Kahneman (1983) will serve as illustration for our purposes.”
Automated Essay Scoring in the Presence of Biased Ratings (2018, background): “Research in cognitive science, psychology and other social studies offer a great amount of work on (conscious and unconscious) biases and their effects on a variety of human activities (Kaheman and Tversky, 1972; Tversky and Kaheman, 1974).”