If I tell you that someone I know is a man who has a beard,drinks wine,and likes to read poetry,and you guess that he is more likely to be a classics professor than a construction worker,you are

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The guess that the man is more likely to be a classics professor than a construction worker is based on the idea that he fits the stereotype or typical representation of a classics professor (e.g. someone who drinks wine and reads poetry). This is an example of the representativeness heuristic, where people make judgments based on how closely something matches their mental model or prototype.

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