Impact of Availability Heuristic in Healthcare
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Impact of Availability Heuristic in Healthcare

Corrected by Emir Baycan · on When Notes Fly · 11 July 2026 · View published page ↗

Investigate how the availability heuristic influences healthcare decisions, leading to unnecessary testing and treatments.

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A study published in Health Psychology by Lichtenstein, Slovic, Fischhoff, Layman, and Combs (1978)
+A study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory by Lichtenstein, Slovic, Fischhoff, Layman, and Com…

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Health Psychology did not begin publication until 1982, so the 1978 Lichtenstein et al. study could not have appeared there; it was published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory.

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