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Memory and representativeness

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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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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1037/rev0000251

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
Saïd Business School
Role:
Author
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
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EISSN:
1939-1471
ISSN:
0033-295X
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1111591
Local pid:
pubs:1111591
Deposit date:
2020-06-11

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