In the situation where Indira thought her nose piercing was really unique, but after when she got it, she also noticed that so many other people on campus had nose piercings too, here, she is experiencing an availability bias.
Basically, an availability bias is also known as availability heuristic and refers to the mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, decision etc. This heuristic operates on the notion that if something can be recalled, then, it must be important or at least more important than alternative solutions not as readily recalled whereas, it is inherently biased toward recently acquired information.
The concept tells about the mental availability of an action's consequences that is positively related to those consequences' perceived magnitude, that is, the easier it is to recall the consequences of something, then, the greater those consequences are often perceived to be.
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