Mental shortcuts used to make quick decisions and evaluations, including availability, representativeness, and anchoring heuristics that can lead to biases.
Example: Using easily recalled examples to judge probability (availability), categorizing based on similarity to stereotypes (representativeness), or being influenced by initial information (anchoring).
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