Applications of Heuristics and Biases to Social Issues (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Heath, Linda; Myers, Judith; Suarez-Balcazar, Yolanda; Henderson-King, Eaaron; Bryant, Fred B.; Posavac, Emil J.; Edwards, John; Tindale, R. Scott

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer US
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475792386
• Artikelnr.: 44062834

Inhaltsangabe

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.