Extrapolation from the literature of social‐cognitive bias suggested testing anchoring and
publicity effects in clinicians'(N= 46) successive judgments of detailed interview notes, five …

When anchoring occurs, estimates of client pathology and prognosis are differentially
related to the time judges are exposed to salient, pathognomonic case material. In the …

Abstract" To investigate the effect of suggestion on clinical psychodiagnosis, an interview
with a mentally healthy man was diagnosed by clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, graduate …

Judgments of the former class of items are stimulus-anchored, while those of the latter are
observer-anchored. The greater the necessity for the observer to apply highly interpretative …

This study investigated whether psychologists' confidence in their clinical decisions is really
justified. It was hypothesized that as psychologists study information about a case (a) their …

Reviews research pertinent to charges that clinicians' judgments are biased against minority
and counternormative persons. Evaluative prejudice is found to be a more circumscribed …

Examines findings showing that (1) those who know an event has occurred tend to claim
that, if they had been asked to predict the event in advance, they would have been likely to …

Two experiments explored methods for standardizing ratings of the psychopathology of
clinical case histories. In both experiments, the same case histories were rated as more …

Recent research in cognitive psychology has begun to uncover some of the factors that
make clinical judgment a difficult task. Five impediments to accurate judgment are …

Abstract 18 behavioral (mean age 27.89 yrs), 18 cognitive (mean age 25.78 yrs), and 18
psychodynamic (mean age 29.22 yrs) clinical trainees viewed a videotaped intake interview …