On the first day of class, many students assumed the well-dressed man in the front of the classroom was the teacher. This error would be explained by

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The representativeness heuristic is when people judge the probability of an event by how much it resembles what they consider to be a typical example of that event. In this case, the students assumed the well-dressed man was the teacher because he fit their stereotype of what a teacher looks like.

On the First Day of Class, Many Students Assumed the Well-Dressed