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

• 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 …

Reexamined the findings of SD Lee (1968 doctoral dissertation) on the tendency of
psychiatric residents to ascribe more severe psychopathology to lower-class patients. 15 …

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 …

Specific conceptual factors are presented as having contributed to the negative findings of
past psychotherapy bias research. Among these factors are the restrictive nature of both the …

Cultural bias in the mental health assessment and psychiatric diagnosis of ethnic minorities
has been asserted and challenged on the basis of clinical impression and a variety of …

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 …

A fictitious counseling center intake report was given to a sample of 158 White graduate
students in counseling and clinical psychology to examine the impact of reported client race …

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

Abstract Members from the American Psychological Association's Clinical Psychology
Division (Division 12) participated in an analogue study of the effects of clients' …