News reports often emphasize events that are very rare, like plane crashes or winning the lottery, and that emphasis causes those events to be memorable and pop into our minds easily. Which cognitive bias would be worsened by this sort of media attention?

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The availability heuristic is the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of events based on how easily they come to mind. When the media constantly reports on rare events like plane crashes or winning the lottery, these events become more available in our minds and we may overestimate how likely they are to occur.

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