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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
1994, 1994
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1994 |
| Series: | Social Psychological Applications To Social Issues
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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