The involvement of psychologists and psychiatrists within the legal arena continues to grow
rapidly but remains highly controversial. Extensive research on clinical judgment provides a …

Persons with recurrent mental dis-orders may feel that they have two very different" selves."
One acts according to their long-term preferences and goals; an-other cruelly sacrifices …

The influence of specific psychiatric labels and types of psychopathology on various
attitudes were investigated in a sample (N= 84) of visitors of patients in a Turkish hospital …

Neuropsychological diagnosis first requires estimation of patients' premorbid cognitive
ability. Although a number of methods have been proposed for this purpose, in practice …

Conducted clinical observations of 5 teachers of psychotherapy and 26 of their patients, who
themselves were practicing psychotherapists, which showed that psychotherapy may be …

There is perhaps nothing more important to experts and the courts than reaching correct
conclusions. Fair and just courtroom outcomes often hinge on getting it right, for example …

Presented a taped diagnostic interview with a professional actor who had been trained to
portray a mentally healthy man to 40 psychiatric residents, assigned to 1 control and 3 …

Medical students in a course that included instruction in patient interviewing participated in
an experiment devised to alert them to sources of bias which might influence their …

Abstract 60 graduate students in clinical psychology made diagnostic assessments of 1 of 2
staged interviews identical in content but enacted to convey either a middle-or lower-class …

Abstract Several investigators (eg, Dawes, 1986; Leary & Miller, 1986; Turk & Salovey,
1986) have argued that the cognitive heuristics and biases formulated by Kahneman …