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The representativeness heuristic: influence on nurses' decision making.

Laura A Brannon, Kimi L Carson
Applied Nursing Research : ANR 2003 August
Nurses and student nurses read case descriptions and generated diagnoses for patients who differed on situational and behaviorial chactacteristics. Consistent with a representativeness heuristic, participants were less likely to attribute symptoms to physical illness when scenarios included extra-symptom patient characteristics. Results suggest that medical personnel implement prototypical, heuristic-based diagnostic procedures.

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