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Clinical Assessment & Behavioral Bias

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Abstractions about assessing and interpreting clinical and behavioral phenomena, including severity and diagnostic scoring (SCORTEN scale, subgroup analysis), cognitive and social biases affecting judgment (selective abstraction, physical attractiveness stereotype, dysfunctional impulsivity), and structured clinical assessment and intervention methods (therapeutic assessment, positive behavior support, sexological testing).

8 abstractions in this family — domain-specific abstractions that sit near one another in structural-signature space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its short description.

  • Dysfunctional impulsivity — Dysfunctional impulsivity is a type of impulsivity that is associated with a tendency to make quick decisions when this type of decision-making is non-optimal.
  • Physical attractiveness stereotype — The physical attractiveness stereotype, commonly known as the "beautiful-is-good" stereotype, is the tendency to assume that physically attractive individuals, coinciding with social beauty standards, also possess other desirable personality traits, such as intelligence, social competence, and morality.
  • Positive behavior support — Positive behavior support is increasingly being recognized as a strategy that is feasible, desirable, and effective.
  • SCORTEN scale — The SCORTEN scale (SCORe of Toxic Epidermal Necrosis) is a severity-of-illness scale with which the severity of certain bullous conditions can be systematically determined.
  • Selective abstraction — In clinical psychology, selective abstraction is a type of cognitive bias or cognitive distortion in which a detail is taken out of context and believed whilst everything else in the context is ignored.
  • Sexological Testing — Sexological testing uses structured questionnaires, interviews, behavioral tasks, or physiological measures to assess sexual and relational functioning in clinical and research contexts.
  • Subgroup analysis — Subgroup analysis refers to repeating the analysis of a study within subgroups of subjects defined by a subgrouping variable.
  • Therapeutic assessment — Therapeutic assessment is a psychological assessment procedure which aims to help people gain insight and apply this new insight to problems in their life.