عنوان

Applications of Heuristics and Biases to Social Issues

(Number (ISBN

1475792387

(Number (ISBN

1475792409

(Number (ISBN

9781475792386

(Number (ISBN

9781475792409

Number

b543093

Title Proper

Applications of Heuristics and Biases to Social Issues

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

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

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Boston, MA Springer US Imprint

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1994

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(XX, 344 pages).

Series Title

Social Psychological Applications to Social Issues, Published under the auspices of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, 3.

Text of Note

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.

Text of Note

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.

Personality.

Psychology.

Sociology.

Class number

Book number

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

Linda Heath

Electronic name

[Book]

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