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.