Li-Repac (1980)
One of the factors that affects diagnosis is a clinician's own biases. Several biases may affect an eventual diagnosis - including sick role bias (where a doctor assumes that because someone has come in for advice, s/he is ill and needs a diagnosis), gender bias, or bias based on socioeconomic status. Background information One area of psychology that started to receive a lot more attention in the 1980s is the role...