Human Growth and Development / Unit 11 HGD 1549 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Culture and Heuristics
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The idea
Heuristic use differs across cultures: Israeli children showed the scarcity heuristic by seven, while Taiwanese children in the same study never did.
In practice
Italians and Swedes each judging likelier whichever hazard their own country had most recently suffered, the availability heuristic.
Where people slip
Shortcuts are universal, but which ones people lean on reflects culture and experience.
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