Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability
Has this study been replicated?
The atlas records 1 replication of this study. Recorded outcomes: 1 successful. The earliest on record is from 2016.
Replications
- Many Labs 3: Evaluating participant pool quality across the academic semester via replication, Ebersole et al. (2016). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Outcome recorded: successful.
Participants estimated that the letters appeared more frequently in the first compared to the third position on average (M = −0.79, SD = 1.59), t(2901) = −26.77, p < .001, d = −.50, 95% CI = [−.54, −.46], and the effect size was much stronger than the original estimation strategy.
Outcome read from p. 7. View paper
Cite this record
Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1973). Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability. Cognitive Psychology, 5(2), 207–232. https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0285(73)90033-9
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