Use of the availability heuristic in probability estimates of future events: The effects of imagining outcomes versus imagining reasons
- 31 October 1987
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
- Vol. 40 (2) , 219-234
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0749-5978(87)90013-6
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