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Bartosz W Wojciechowski¹, Bernadetta Izydorczyk¹, Pawel Blasiak²

¹Faculty of Management and Social Communication, Institute of Applied Psychology, Jagiellonian University.

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Clinical psychologists and psychiatrists showed evaluation bias when diagnosing eating disorders. A quantum probability model, which accounts for how judgments change evaluations, explained this bias and its impact on rational decision-making.

Keywords:

Clinical decision making Constructive influences Eating disorders Evaluation bias Quantum probability theory

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Area of Science:

Psychology
Cognitive Science
Psychiatry

Background:

Sequential judgments of oppositely valenced stimuli can lead to evaluation biases, where the first rating influences the second.
This phenomenon is relevant to clinical diagnosis, particularly for eating disorders, where subjective evaluations are crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate evaluation bias in clinical psychologists and psychiatrists diagnosing eating disorders.
To model this bias using quantum probability theory and assess its implications for behavioral rationality.

Main Methods:

A population sample of experienced clinicians evaluated descriptions of individuals for eating disorder consistency.
A previously developed quantum probability model, extended to include noisy processes and belief adjustment, was applied to the observed data.

Main Results:

Partial evidence of an evaluation bias was found in the clinicians' judgments.
The extended quantum model provided a good fit to the observed data, capturing the evaluation bias.

Conclusions:

Quantum probability theory offers a suitable framework for modeling evaluation biases in judgment and decision-making.
The findings provide insights into the rationality of clinical judgment in the context of eating disorder diagnosis.