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Applications of heuristics and biases to social issues

edited by Linda Heath ... [et al.]

(Social psychological applications to social issues, v. 3)

Plenum Press, c1994

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"A project of the faculty and students in the Applied Social Psychology Graduate Program at Loyola University of Chicago and published under the auspices of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues."

Includes bibliographies and index

Description and Table of Contents

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.

Table of Contents

  • Heuristics and Biases in Applied Settings: An Introduction
  • L. Heath, R.S. Tindale. Heuristics and Biases in Health Decision Making: Their Expression in Genetic Counseling
  • S. Shiloh. AIDS, Sterile Needles, and Ethnocentrism
  • R.M. Dawes. Heuristics and Biases in Medical Judgment and Decision Making
  • S. Schwartz. Cognitive Heuristics and Biases in Personality Assessment
  • H.N. Garb. Negligence Law and Mental Mutation: A Social Inference Model of Apportioning Fault
  • R.L. Wiener, C.C. Pritchard. Lay Evaluations of Encounters with Government Officials: Do Expectations Serve as Filters and Standards? L.J. Stalans. Biases and Rationality in the Mediation Process
  • K. Gibson, et al. Heuristic Processing in Organizational Judgments
  • C.T. Kulik. 7 additional articles. Index.

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