Suppose Henry meets a woman who opposes the death penalty. From this, Henry decides that women are more likely than men to oppose the death penalty. Henry assumes that the individual case is typical of its category. Henry has fallen prey to:

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Henry has made the mistake of relying on the representativeness heuristic, which refers to the tendency to judge the likelihood of an event based on how closely the event matches our preconceived stereotype or prototype. He assumes that the woman's stance on the death penalty is representative of women as a whole, without considering other factors that may have influenced her opinion.

Suppose Henry Meets a Woman Who Opposes the Death Penalty