Using Tversky’s contrast model to investigate how features of similarity affect judgments of likelihood

The representativeness heuristic suggests that similarity judgments provide a basis for judgments of likelihood. We use Tversky’s (1977) contrast model of similarity to design tests of this underlying mechanism. If similarity is used to judge likelihood, factors that are known to affect similarity s...

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Main Authors: Mirta Galesic, A. Walkyria Goode, Thomas S. Wallsten, Kent L. Norman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2018-03-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/15/151013/jdm151013.pdf