Theory and configurality in clinical judgments of expert and novice psychologists.
This article shows that in judging the degree of pathology of mental patients, expert psychologists, more than novices, assign heavier weight to the more pathological information. This difference is explained in terms of the professional socialization process of clinical psychologists.
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Tel Aviv University, Israel 69102. yoavgn@post.tau.ac.il
D002983:Clinical Competence; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D011586:Psychology, Clinical / Q000193:education; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012951:Socialization