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Applications of Heuristics and Biases to Social Issues

This volume presents the latest research on applying heuristics and biases to the areas of health, law, education, and organizations. Authors adopt a cross-disciplinary approach to study various theories

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Other Authors: Heath, Linda (Editor), Tindale, R. Scott (Editor), Edwards, John (Editor), Posavac, Emil J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1994, 1994
Edition:1st ed. 1994
Series:Social Psychological Applications To Social Issues
Subjects:
Sociology
Personality And Differential Psychology
Difference (psychology)
Personality
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a 1. Heuristics and Biases in Applied Settings: An Introduction -- 2. Heuristics and Biases in Health Decision Making: Their Expression in Genetic Counseling -- 3. AIDS, Sterile Needles, and Ethnocentrism -- 4. Heuristics and Biases in Medical Judgment and Decision Making -- 5. Cognitive Heuristics and Biases in Personality Assessment -- 6. Understanding Judges’ Sentencing Decisions: Attributions of Responsibility and Story Construction -- 7. Negligence Law and Mental Mutation: A Social Inference Model of Apportioning Fault -- 8. Lay Evaluations of Encounters with Government Officials: Do Expectations Serve as Filters and Standards? -- 9. Biases and Rationality in the Mediation Process -- 10. Heuristic Processing in Organizational Judgments -- 11. Policy Schemas for Affirmative Action -- 12. Affirmative Action Programs: Discontinuities between Thoughts about Individuals and Thoughts about Groups -- 13. The Effects of Stereotypes on Children’s Use of Decision Heuristics -- 14. Heuristics, Biases, and Environmental Health Risk Analysis -- 15. Cognitive Heuristics in Students’ College Decisions -- 16. Teacher Expectations and Student Achievement: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, Biases, and Accuracy 
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