SELF-CONFIDENCE AND CONFIRMATORAY INFORMATION-SEARCH
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2019-07-01
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Diagnosing in mental health care is a difficult process due to the kind of information
professionals get, time restraints and overlapping symptoms. In situations like these,
professionals, as all humans, make use of short thinking routes such as confirmation bias,
which is prone to produce errors. In clinical practice this can lead to incorrect diagnoses and
can have tremendous consequences for the patient. People actually seem to differ in the
amount of confirmation bias they use. One source of difference is general self-confidence.
Therefor, we investigated the relationship between general self-confidence and confirmation
bias in clinical psychology master students in a case-vignette task. General self-confidence
predicted the amount of confirming information used by psychology-students. This finding
can help to prevent psychologists from using confirmation bias, preventing misdiagnoses and
prolonged suffering of the patient.
Keywords: Clinical decision making, general self-confidence, confirmation bias
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Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen