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1Board of Governors Professor Emeritus, Institute for Health and Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA.
Abstract:
Modelling the automatic and deliberative processes that interact and underlie common-sense perceptions and behaviours for managing health and illness requires prototypes at multiple levels; specific illnesses and treatments at the 'surface' and generic acute, episodic and chronic prototypes at deeper levels. Models need to represent how multi-level processing can generate inconsistent as well as consistent expectations regarding successful management and how the limited visibility of process affects communication and symptom labelling by practitioners.
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