Journal article
Memory and representativeness
- Abstract:
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We explore the idea that judgment by representativeness reflects the workings of memory. In our model, the probability of a hypothesis conditional on data increases in the ease with which instances of that hypothesis are retrieved when cued with the data. Retrieval is driven by a measure of similarity which exhibits contextual interference: a data / cue is less likely to retrieve instances of a hypothesis that occurs frequently in other data. As a result, probability assessments are context d...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- American Psychological Association Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Psychological Review Journal website
- Volume:
- 128
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 71–85
- Publication date:
- 2020-08-27
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-06-09
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1939-1471
- ISSN:
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0033-295X
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1111591
- Local pid:
- pubs:1111591
- Deposit date:
- 2020-06-11
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- Copyright holder:
- American Psychological Association
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © 2020 American Psychological Association
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from American Psychological Association at: https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/rev0000251
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