After reading the description of Linda in your text, most people indicate it is more likely that Linda is both a bank teller and active in the feminist movement than that Linda is just a bank teller. That example illustrates that the _____ heuristic leads people to _____.

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The description of Linda fits with the stereotype of a feminist, so people rely on the representativeness heuristic and assume that Linda is more likely to fit that stereotype than just being a bank teller. This leads to the conjunction fallacy, where people judge a conjunction of events to be more probable than one of the events alone, even though the former cannot be more probable than the latter.

After Reading the Description of Linda in Your Text, Most