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... Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases.” It described the simplifying shortcuts of intuitive thinking and explained some 20 biases as manifestations of these heuristics—and also as demonstrations of the role of heuristics in ...
... judgment had far more effect on social science than we thought possible when we were working on it. Immediately after completing our review ofjudgment, we switched our attention to decision making under uncertainty. Our goal was to ...
... judgments under uncertainty are produced by the heuristics we studied; it is now clear that they are not. In particular, the accurate intuitions of experts are better explained by the effects of prolonged practice than by heuristics. We ...
... judgments and choices than it did in the past. The executive's decision would today be described as an example of the affect heuristic, where judgments and decisions are guided directly by feelings of liking and disliking, with little ...
... judgments you make. Most of this book is about the workings of System 1 and the mutual influences between it and ... judgment and choice. It elaborates the distinction between the automatic operations of System 1 and the controlled op ...