Effects of biological explanations for mental disorders on clinicians' empathy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 50, 2014, Pages 17786-17790

  Lebowitz, Matthew S ^a   Ahn, Woo Kyoung ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological explanations; Dehumanization; Empathy; Essentialism; Mental disorders

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DEPRESSION; EMPATHY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOLOGIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL WORKER; SOCIAL WORKER ATTITUDE; ADULT; COMPREHENSION; COUNSELING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; PERCEPTION; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMPREHENSION; COUNSELING; EMPATHY; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84919360388     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1414058111     Document Type: Article

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