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| Nancy S KimSummaryAffiliation: Yale University Country: USA Publications
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The influence of naive causal theories on lay concepts of mental illnessNancy S Kim
Yale University, USA
Am J Psychol 115:33-65. 2002..Implications of these results for current models of categorization and for research on lay theories of mental disorders are discussed, and future directions for research are suggested...
Clinical psychologists' theory-based representations of mental disorders predict their diagnostic reasoning and memoryNancy S Kim
Department of Psychology, Yale University, 2 Hillhouse Avenue, P O Box 208205, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8205, USA
J Exp Psychol Gen 131:451-76. 2002..Their memory for causally central symptoms was also biased. Clinicians are cognitively driven to use theories despite decades of practice with the atheoretical DSM...
From symptoms to causes: diversity effects in diagnostic reasoningNancy S Kim
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8205, USA
Mem Cognit 31:155-65. 2003..Specifically, the presence of a root cause was more likely to be induced when the symptoms present were further apart in the branching structure...
The influence of causal information on judgments of treatment efficacyJennelle E Yopchick
Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115 5000, USA
Mem Cognit 37:29-41. 2009..We discuss how our findings are compatible with existing models of categorization. A description of pilot studies for Experiment 1 may be downloaded as supplemental materials from mc.psychonomic-journals.org...
Can personality disorder experts recognize DSM-IV personality disorders from five-factor model descriptions of patient cases?Benjamin M Rottman
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 72:630-9. 2011..Dimensional models of personality are under consideration for integration into the next Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), but the clinical utility of such models is unclear...
Understanding behavior makes it more normalWoo kyoung Ahn
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 10:746-52. 2003..Undergraduates, graduate students in clinical psychology, and expert clinicians all reliably perceived the patients as being more normal with these explanations than without them, confirming Meehl's prediction...
How do practising clinicians and students apply newly learned causal information about mental disorders?Leontien de Kwaadsteniet
Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
J Eval Clin Pract 19:112-7. 2013....
Causal diversity effects in information seekingNancy S Kim
Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 15:81-8. 2008....
Can clinicians recognize DSM-IV personality disorders from five-factor model descriptions of patient cases?Benjamin M Rottman
Department of Psychology, Yale University, P O Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Am J Psychiatry 166:427-33. 2009..Specifically, the authors sought to test whether FFM descriptors are specific enough to allow practicing clinicians to capture core features of personality disorders...
