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Download full textAlloy, Lauren B. – 1985
This paper considers three clinical judgment biases in clinical inference: (1) illusory correlation bias, the report by clinicians of a correlation between psychodiagnostic test signs and patient's symptoms which are not correlated or are correlated to a smaller degree than that reported; (2) labeling bias, the tendency of exposure to diagnositc…
Descriptors: Bias, Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Psychology, Correlation
