psychology-heuristics

What problem does it solve?

It helps you determine when fast, intuitive thinking (heuristics) is trustworthy versus when it is likely to mislead, so you can decide whether to accept, override, or supplement your first instincts.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Heuristic identification: Pinpoints which fast-thinking pattern is driving your judgment (e.g., representativeness, availability, affect heuristic, recognition heuristic, fluency, social consensus, expert intuition).
• Domain calibration: Evaluates whether the situation is within the heuristic’s reliability domain using familiarity, feedback regularity, exploitation risk, and emotional contamination.
• Distortion risk assessment: Predicts the direction and likely magnitude of systematic error in this specific context.
• Decision recommendation: Produces a clear trust/override/supplement recommendation, including when to use System 2 to reduce error under high stakes.

Quick Start

Use the psychology-heuristics skill when you feel uncertain about whether your intuition is accurate, and ask it to assess the heuristic, domain reliability, and whether you should trust or override the gut read for your decision.