title: Interpersonal attractiveness and clinical decision in alcoholism treatment.
abstract: The authors investigated the interactive contribution of patient characteristics and staff perceptions of the patient to decisions concerning the provision of continued alcoholism treatment following an initial 2-week evaluation period. Staff perceptions contributed significantly more to an individual's acceptance or rejection than did patient characteristics. A high interpersonal attractiveness rating also led to a significantly more positive evaluation of the patients' level of intelligence, knowledge of current events, morality, and adjustment. The present results and research findings with general psychiatric populations are compared.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003657:Decision Making; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012923:Social Class; D012928:Social Desirability