[Rater-specific variables in judging depressive patients (author's transl)]

Four raters judged their sympathy towards 19 depressed patients and also the intensity of their disease using thermometer-scales. It was exmained whether there was a correlation between the two scores. A rater-specifuc varuabke was fiybd fir eacg if tge fiyr raters. The importance of these variables for further investigations is discussed.