Applications of Heuristics and Biases to Social Issues
Published on 30. September 1994
Book
Hardback
XX, 344 pages
978-0-306-44750-1 (ISBN)
Description
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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Series
Edition
1994 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Springer Science+Business Media
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XX, 344 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
717 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-306-44750-1 (9780306447501)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4757-9238-6
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Content
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.