Toward a Social Psychology of Diagnosis: Similarity, Attraction, and Clinical Evaluation.

Mazer, Donald B.

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Publication Date: 1979-Jun

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Toward a Social Psychology of Diagnosis: Similarity, Attraction, and Clinical Evaluation.

Mazer, Donald B.

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, v47 n3 p586-88 Jun 1979

Clinicians and undergraduates evaluated a client similar or dissimilar to themselves in political radicalism. Results document the presence of diagnostic bias, but only among student subjects is bias a function of similarity. For clinicians, the more radical client is seen as less disturbed. Similarity-attraction relationships were absent in both samples. (Author/BEF)

Descriptors: Bias, Clinical Diagnosis, Counselor Client Relationship, Counselors, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Attraction, Political Attitudes, Undergraduate Students

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Canada

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