Applications of Heuristics and Biases to Social Issues

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-1-4757-9240-9
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 344 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 527 g

Reihe: Social Psychological Applications 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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heath, Linda

Tindale, R. Scott

Edwards, John

Myers, Judith

Posavac, Emil J.

Bryant, Fred B.

Henderson-King, Eaaron

Suarez-Balcazar, Yolanda

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.