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Stereotyping Patients

Puddifoot, Katherine

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There is a burgeoning psychological literature indicating that health professionals are influenced in their clinical judgment and decision making by implicit biases. Implicit biases are automatic and unintentional associations that are made between members of particular social groups (racial, gender, socioeconomic, and so on) and certain traits (e.g., laziness, greed, athleticism, and so on) or affective responses (i.e., positive or negative affectivity).1 When automatic stereotyping occurs through the operation of implicit bias, people are associated with particular traits in virtue of their social group membership rather than their other personal characteristics. This stereotyping has been found to influence the judgment and decision making of health professionals, leading to differential medical outcomes. The quality of care that patients receive can be determined in part by their social group membership and the associations that are made with their social group by those responsible for patient care.

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Puddifoot, K. (2019). Stereotyping Patients. Journal of Social Philosophy, 50(1), 69-90. https://doi.org/10.1111/josp.12269

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Mar 18, 2019
Publication Date Mar 31, 2019
Deposit Date Oct 22, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Journal of Social Philosophy
Print ISSN 0047-2786
Electronic ISSN 1467-9833
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 50
Issue 1
Pages 69-90
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/josp.12269

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© 2019 The Authors. Journal of Social Philosophy Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.





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