Life Experience Influenced by Availability Heuristic

Availability Heuristic
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Availability Heuristic
A cognitive bias known as the availability heuristic influences how people make decisions and judgments based on how quickly pertinent information comes to mind. When someone uses the availability heuristic, they are likelier to overestimate the chance of recent or easily recalled events. Since I once had an extreme phobia of flying due to a close friend dying in a plane crash, I believe the availability heuristic has been at work in my life. I had never been frightened of flying, but ever since I learned that one of my friends was in a plane accident, I started experiencing severe anxiety about flying. My anxiety increases when I think about other airline catastrophes I have...