Top 10 Death Traps for Psychologists
From early on in their training, psychologists are taught that they have certain “cognitive biases” to overcome. Like every other human, psychologists observe people and judge them by certain beliefs, ideas or attitudes they have. Because diagnosing people with a certain disorder is an enormous responsibility, they have to make sure they don’t judge them incorrectly. For instance, when an eccentric looking man, who speaks incoherently and in odd language, you might be easy to attribute it to a psychotic disorder, but it might as well be a schizoid personality disorder, which is something different altogether. These two disorders require very different sorts of treatment and if the person is misdiagnosed, it could be very harmful. Consequently,...
“What is beautiful is good”: How our bias for beauty defines who we like (Guest Blog)
I would like to welcome my dear friend: Wendy Reinders. We both study Clinical and Health Psychology at the Utrecht University. Wendy is the first guest blogger I have invited to this blog and I’m very excited about it – enjoy! What’s the first thing we’re likely to notice about those we meet? Their looks, of course. And, although we all know there is much more to people than their appearance, looks definitely count. Physical attractiveness has a substantial influence on the first impressions that people form of one another. In general, we tend to assume that good-looking people are more likeable than those who are unattractive. Studies show that physically attractive people are also presumed to be more interesting, talented, sociable and smarter...
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