Availability heuristic

attribution is seeing an individual do something ONCE and assume that is something the individual does often. Ex: “If I’m late, it’s because I missed the bus, but if other students are late it’s simply because they are tardy students.” What is availability bias? Availability bias is seeing an event so often that you start to believe it is going to happen to you. Ex: someone wins the…

School shootings are typically the first thought pertaining to school violence because of availability bias. The news will report shocking school shootings, but fail to mention the amount of school shootings there have not been. The impact can make a person believe there are more school shootings than there is in reality (“Availability Heuristic”). School shootings are a popular subject in the media creating a debate whether school violence is an issue or not. Violence in schools is a current…

Open access (OA) provides a constructive solution to this problem. OA can be defined as free, unrestricted, immediate and online availability of high-quality scientific research results. OA is invaluable in that it can add value to the economy, to research and to society. Open Access has both value and a positive impact on patient care. Initiatives include, for example, the Cochrane Library Collaboration, a gold standard in systematic reviews which is made openly accessible in developing…

Microsoft, Ballmer and Nokia. On the 8th of July 2015, Satya Nadella undid what is considered one of the biggest mistakes in Microsoft’s history; the acquisition of Nokia. The story starts a couple of years earlier when Steve Ballmer was CEO of Microsoft. Under his leadership, he steered the company in 2011 to negotiate with Nokia on a takeover bid, which was finalized in September of 2013. The Microsoft board fought against the deal but Ballmer (sometimes verbally abusing) disregarded their…

This assignment discusses the role group membership plays, with an introduction to the components of a group. It emphasises the self, the group and interaction as the different variables in group membership. Subsequently, the role of group membership is discussed; first, in research by Asch (1956), with its effect on the self; second, in research by Sherif (1935), with its effect on the group and formation of social norms; lastly, in research by Zimbardo, Maslach & Haney (2000), with its effect…

Explain using what you know using social psychology. According to Lavoie from education-portal.com, the Availability Heuristic is a “mental shortcut” that “ judges the probability of events by how quickly and easily examples can come to mind”A Singaporean would be aware that physical punishments are common in Asians families having experienced it. Many Asian families…

Over the past month I have observed many interesting arguments that have caught my attention through the diversity of everyone’s opinion. The first argument that caught my eye was between my sister and her boyfriend about the plot in the movie Gladiator starring Russell Crowe. The argument that they were trying to settle was, if they were in the actor’s shoes and their family was crucified by the emperor of Rome, would you want to kill the emperor for his doing or kill is his family so he can…

In the article “The media exaggerates negative news. This distortion has consequences”(2018), the author Steven Pinker introduces to the general public why the media like to report the negative news and exaggerate it. The author states exaggeration is worse and he explains why it happened. Firstly the author describes what is negative news and he gives some examples of the negative news in history. Then he argues the negative news effects and he believes it is negative forwards to the public. In…

of the population, these are actually false assumptions. In actuality, there are multiple fatal car crashes every week and there are twice as many suicide deaths per year than there are murders. (Curtis) These are known to psychologists as availability heuristics or our mental shortcuts to specific conclusions because it is what we see most often in the media. The airtime, amount of coverage across multiple mediums and overall portrayal often gives the consumer an altered view of the reality…

This theory explains how many wear a narcissism mask to cover up low self-esteem making narcissism and self-esteem negatively correlated (Barnett & Powell, 2016). They have also discredited the findings of GenMe advocates by addressing the availability heuristic, a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person’s mind when evaluating a specific topic. Here, opponents argue that today’s generation is being judged based on the people most visible to the public eye,…