Search research articles

ABOUT JoVE

Overview Leadership Blog JoVE Help Center

AUTHORS

Publishing Process Editorial Board Scope & Policies Peer Review FAQ Submit

LIBRARIANS

Testimonials Subscriptions Access Resources Library Advisory Board FAQ

RESEARCH

JoVE Journal Methods Collections JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments Archive

EDUCATION

JoVE Core JoVE Business JoVE Science Education JoVE Lab Manual Faculty Resource Center Faculty Site

Terms & Conditions of Use

Related Concept Videos

The Availability Heuristic

The Availability Heuristic

A heuristic is a general problem-solving framework (Tversky & Kahneman, 1974). You can think of these as mental shortcuts that are used to solve problems. Different types of heuristics are used in different types of situations, and the impulse to use a heuristic occurs when one of five conditions is met (Pratkanis, 1989):

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by

Same author

Evaluation of clinical risk factors for quality assessment of treatment of acute myocardial infarction: a cohort study using German claims data linked with clinical data from 14 hospitals.

BMJ public health·2026

Same author

Overweight predisposes to microvascular obstruction: insights from the TATORT-NSTEMI trial.

The international journal of cardiovascular imaging·2026

Same author

Implementation of revascularization guidelines for diabetics with chronic coronary syndromes in clinical practice: findings from the German ALKK registry.

Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society·2026

Same author

Effect of vessel diameter on the clinical benefits of drug-coated balloon angioplasty: Insights from paclitaxel-coated balloon and polymer-free sirolimus-eluting stent studies.

Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society·2026

Same author

More on Long-Term Outcomes of the DanGer Shock Trial.

The New England journal of medicine·2025

Same author

Influence of Extracorporeal Life Support on the Causes of Death in Infarct-Related Cardiogenic Shock.

JACC. Cardiovascular interventions·2025

Search research articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Mar 18, 2026

High-throughput Fluorometric Measurement of Potential Soil Extracellular Enzyme Activities

High-throughput Fluorometric Measurement of Potential Soil Extracellular Enzyme Activities

Published on: November 15, 2013

[Not Available]

¹Medizinische Klinik B, Klinikum der Stadt Ludwigshafen, Bremserstraße 79, D-67063, Ludwigshafen, Deutschland.

MMW Fortschritte Der Medizin

|July 3, 2016

Summary

No abstract available in PubMed .

More Related Videos

Ex Vivo Assessment of Contractility, Fatigability and Alternans in Isolated Skeletal Muscles

Ex Vivo Assessment of Contractility, Fatigability and Alternans in Isolated Skeletal Muscles

Published on: November 1, 2012

A Submerged Filter Paper Sandwich for Long-term Ex Ovo Time-lapse Imaging of Early Chick Embryos

A Submerged Filter Paper Sandwich for Long-term Ex Ovo Time-lapse Imaging of Early Chick Embryos

Published on: December 28, 2016

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Mar 18, 2026

High-throughput Fluorometric Measurement of Potential Soil Extracellular Enzyme Activities

High-throughput Fluorometric Measurement of Potential Soil Extracellular Enzyme Activities

Published on: November 15, 2013

Ex Vivo Assessment of Contractility, Fatigability and Alternans in Isolated Skeletal Muscles

Ex Vivo Assessment of Contractility, Fatigability and Alternans in Isolated Skeletal Muscles

Published on: November 1, 2012

A Submerged Filter Paper Sandwich for Long-term Ex Ovo Time-lapse Imaging of Early Chick Embryos

A Submerged Filter Paper Sandwich for Long-term Ex Ovo Time-lapse Imaging of Early Chick Embryos

Published on: December 28, 2016