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Applications of Heuristics and Biases to Social Issues
Title:
Applications of Heuristics and Biases to Social Issues
ISBN:
9781475792386
Edition:
1st ed. 1994.
Publication Information New:
New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1994.
Physical Description:
XX, 344 p. online resource.
Series:
Social Psychological Applications To Social Issues ; 3
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.
Abstract:
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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Language:
English