You are on a jury. The defendant is a well-dressed middle-aged father. He just does not fit your idea of a murderer. It will be important for you to listen to the evidence presented rather than succumb to
A)the framing effect.
B)the underlying base rate.
C)the representativeness heuristic.
D)divergent thinking.

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The representativeness heuristic is a cognitive bias where people judge the probability or frequency of a hypothesis by considering how much the hypothesis resembles available data. In this scenario, the juror is judging the defendant's likelihood of being a murderer based on their appearance and how it fits with the juror's stereotype of a murderer, rather than on the evidence presented.

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