Individual Differences In The Perception And Judgement Of Psychopathology

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Two studies were designed to investigate one aspect of clinical judgment, inferences regarding psychopathology based on limited information. Perceived relationships among 27 psychopathological constructs were structurally represented by multidimensional scaling procedures. Although there were individual differences in the perception of psychopathology, the obtained common perceptual space was regarded as an adequate and parsimonious representation of many individual implicit theories of psychopathology. The relative correspondence of this common perceptual space with self-reported data from normal and abnormal samples was interpreted as suggesting that the common implicit theory of psychopathology provided a relatively valid foundation for the inferential judgments of specific targets. The process of inferential judgments of three specific targets reflecting depression, preparanoia, and psychopathy were also represented geometrically in the common perceptual space by fitting the unfolding models and the v...

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