Applications of Heuristics and Biases to Social Issues

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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

John Edwards ist Professor für Geschichte an der Universität Oxford und der weltweit beste Kenner der Geschichte der spanischen Inquisition.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Fred B. Bryant (Editor), John Edwards (Editor), John Edwards et al (Editor), Linda Heath (Editor), Eaaron Henderson-King (Editor), Judith Myers (Editor), Emil J. Posavac (Editor), Scott Tindale (Editor), R Scott Tindale (Editor), Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar (Editor), R. Sc. Tindale (Editor), R. Scott Tindale (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.2009
• EAN: 9780306447501
• ISBN: 978-0-306-44750-1
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 243 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 694 g
• Illustrations: XX, 344 p.
• Series: Social Psychological Applications To Social Issues; Social Psychological Applications To Social Issues
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology