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The effects of peripheral message cues on clinicians' judgments about clients' psychological status
Citation
Brewer, N and Barnes, J and Sauer, J, The effects of peripheral message cues on clinicians' judgments about clients' psychological status, British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 50, (1) pp. 67-83. ISSN 2044-8260 (2011) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2010 The British Psychological Society
DOI: doi:10.1348/014466510X494097
Abstract
This research examined the influence of peripheral message cues on clinicians' judgment about the psychological status of clients. The elaboration likelihood model (ELM) of social persuasion suggests that peripheral message cues are likely to exert a greater influence on clinicians' judgments when a client's presentation meets some, but not all, diagnostic criteria for a disorder (i.e., when the presentation is ambiguous). Within this theoretical framework, we examined the effects of a peripheral message cue (level of irrelevant detail in the client's presentation) and presentation ambiguity on clinicians' judgments of need for treatment, illness severity, and distress. Consistent with predictions based on the ELM, for both obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder presentations, high levels of irrelevant detail exerted a greater influence on clinicians' judgments of clients' need for treatment when presentation ambiguity was high than when it was low.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | Decision making, clinical psychology |
Research Division: | Psychology |
Research Group: | Clinical and health psychology |
Research Field: | Health psychology |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in psychology |
UTAS Author: | Sauer, J (Dr Jim Sauer) |
ID Code: | 95947 |
Year Published: | 2011 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 1 |
Deposited By: | Psychology |
Deposited On: | 2014-10-13 |
Last Modified: | 2018-05-04 |
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