Suppose that Oksana is driving in a car to a friend's house. As she pulls into the friend's driveway, she sees that the odometer shows the number 2222.2 miles. She says to herself, "This number is weird…something really unusual is going to happen today when I am with my friend." This reaction would be an example of

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Oksana's reaction is an example of the representativeness heuristic, where she perceives the unusual or unique odometer reading as indicative of something significant or out of the ordinary happening, based on its distinctiveness or representativeness of something unusual, rather than on any logical or statistical reasoning.

Suppose That Oksana Is Driving in a Car to a Friend's