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" Applications of Heuristics and Biases to Social Issues "
edited by Linda Heath, R. Scott Tindale, John Edwards, Emil J. Posavac, Fred B. Bryant, Eaaron Henderson-King, Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, Judith Myers.
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edited by Linda Heath, R. Scott Tindale, John Edwards, Emil J. Posavac, Fred B. Bryant, Eaaron Henderson-King, Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, Judith Myers.
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Applications of Heuristics and Biases to Social Issues\ edited by Linda Heath, R. Scott Tindale, John Edwards, Emil J. Posavac, Fred B. Bryant, Eaaron Henderson-King, Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, Judith Myers.
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Boston, MA Springer US Imprint: Springer, 1994
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Social Psychological Applications to Social Issues, Published under the auspices of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, 3.
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(XX, 344 pages).
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1475792387
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: 9781475792409
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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.
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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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Personality.
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Psychology.
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Sociology.
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BF448.E358 1994
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Linda Heath
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