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Cognitive Heuristics and Biases in Personality Assessment

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Several investigators (e.g., Dawes, 1986; Leary & Miller, 1986; Turk & Salovey, 1986) have argued that the cognitive heuristics and biases formulated by Kahneman, Tversky, and others (Kahneman, Slovic, & Tversky, 1982; Nisbett & Ross, 1980) are descriptive of how psychologists and psychiatrists make judgments and decisions. Research on whether these heuristics and biases are descriptive of clinicians will be reviewed, comments will be made about how clinicians learn from experience, and implications for training and clinical practice will be discussed.

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Garb, H.N. (1994). Cognitive Heuristics and Biases in Personality Assessment. In: Heath, L., et al. Applications of Heuristics and Biases to Social Issues. Social Psychological Applications to Social Issues, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9238-6_5

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