Suppose that Oksana is driving in a car to a friend's house.As she pulls into the friend's driveway,she sees that the odometer shows the number 2222.2 miles.She says to herself,"This number is weird…something really unusual is going to happen today when I am with my friend." This reaction would be an example of

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The reaction of Oksana is an example of the representativeness heuristic where she sees an unusual number on the odometer and assumes that something unusual might happen later. This is a cognitive bias where people tend to make judgments based on how representative or similar an event or situation is to a prototype or category. In this case, Oksana is considering the odometer reading as representative of an unusual day.

Suppose That Oksana Is Driving in a Car to a Friend's