The tendency to overestimate the probability of improbable events reflects the influence of the
A) gambler's heuristic.
B) representativeness heuristic.
C) availability heuristic.
D) conjunction heuristic.

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The availability heuristic leads people to overestimate the probability of events that are more easily recalled or imagined, often because they are more dramatic or recent, even if they are actually improbable.

The Tendency to Overestimate the Probability of Improbable Events Reflects