The Simulation Heuristic.¶
Kahneman, D., & Tversky, A. (1982). The Simulation Heuristic. Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases.
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Primes¶
- Counterfactual Reasoning
- The process operates across regret psychology (ruminating on roads not taken), blame and responsibility attribution (considering alternative actions the agent could have taken), educational learning (productive failure and deliberate reflection on counterfactual solution paths), medical decision-making (mental simulation of alternative treatment scenarios), legal reasoning (but-for counterfactuals grounded in cognitive narrative construction), and AI/ML fairness (generating minimal counterfactual input perturbations that flip model decisions).
This sourceIntroduces the simulation heuristic and the Mr. Crane / Mr. Tees near-miss vignette; ease of mentally undoing an outcome drives judged regret.
- The process operates across regret psychology (ruminating on roads not taken), blame and responsibility attribution (considering alternative actions the agent could have taken), educational learning (productive failure and deliberate reflection on counterfactual solution paths), medical decision-making (mental simulation of alternative treatment scenarios), legal reasoning (but-for counterfactuals grounded in cognitive narrative construction), and AI/ML fairness (generating minimal counterfactual input perturbations that flip model decisions).
- Counterfactuals
- Counterfactual thinking as emotional and motivational process (Kahneman and Tversky 1981)
This sourceIntroduces the simulation heuristic; regret/counterfactual intensity predicted by the ease and distance of mental simulation.
- Counterfactual thinking as emotional and motivational process (Kahneman and Tversky 1981)
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