Examined the influence of patient and clinician values on clinical judgment, using 363
clinical psychologists. Ss each rated 2 case histories. One case had been altered to reflect 1 …

The influence of patient and clinician ideology on clinical judgment is studied in the context
of a clinical analogue design. These findings suggest that patient ideology, therapist …

Attitudes toward patients and attitudes toward the etiology and treatment of illness were
compared among psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric social workers, and nurses. One …

• This study was done to clarify the role of political bias in forming psychiatric impressions.
One hundred two psychiatrists randomly selected from the national register rendered six …

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 …

To determine whether clinicians' diagnoses of patients are biased by their religion, by the
religion of the patient, or by the interaction of religions, psychologists licensed in Utah were …

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

A specificity-of-attitude hypothesis, proposed by Grace and Graham, 3 stated that there is a
specific relation between the attitude towards a stressful stimulus and the disease which …

There is evidence that many clinicians' activities with lower-class patients may be influenced
more by attitudes reflecting a middle-class orientation than by objective criteria …

Investigated the effects of therapists' and patients' religious affiliation on therapists' attraction
to, prognostic expectations of, and diagnosis of patients. 37 32–60 yr old psychologists with …