Effects of uncertainty on use of the availability of heuristic for self-efficacy judgments

Under conditions of higher or lower uncertainty, college students recalled three or eight ways to improve exam performance and then estimated their likelihood of getting As on their easiest and hardest finals. Results supported the hypothesis that the availability heuristic is used only under conditions of uncertainty. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/34564/1/943_ftp.pd