Applications of Heuristics and Biases to Social Issues
Published on 2. May 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
XX, 344 pages
978-1-4757-9240-9 (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.
More details
Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XX, 344 p.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
527 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4757-9240-9 (9781475792409)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4757-9238-6
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Linda Heath | R. Scott Tindale | John Edwards
Applications of Heuristics and Biases to Social Issues
E-Book
06/2013
Springer
€96.29
Available for download
Linda Heath | R. Scott Tindale | John Edwards
Applications of Heuristics and Biases to Social Issues
Book
09/1994
Plenum Publishing Co.,N.Y.
€106.99
Shipment within 10-15 days
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.