After seeing your new neighbour walking very stiffly and primly by your house wearing horn-rimmed glasses on a chain,a cardigan sweater,and her hair in a bun,you decide she must be a librarian.What are you using to make this judgment

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This is an example of the representativeness heuristic, where we make judgments about someone or something based on how well they fit our prototype or schema of what we think a librarian "should" look like. The person's appearance matches our mental image of a librarian, so we assume that she is one.

After Seeing Your New Neighbour Walking Very Stiffly and Primly