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“Trust Me…”: Psychological and Behavioral Predictors of Perceived Physician Empathy

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Applied Psychology, January 2007
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Title
“Trust Me…”: Psychological and Behavioral Predictors of Perceived Physician Empathy
Published in
Journal of Applied Psychology, January 2007
DOI 10.1037/0021-9010.92.2.519
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Authors

Jo Silvester, Fiona Patterson, Anna Koczwara, Eamonn Ferguson

Abstract

A sociocognitive model of distal and proximal predictors of empathic judgments was tested among 100 physicians. The authors hypothesized that physician perceived control would affect empathy ratings via physician communication style. Specifically, physicians with high perceived control would use more open communication and be rated as more empathic. Physicians with low perceived control would use a controlling communication style and be rated as less empathic. Physicians completed a medical attribution questionnaire prior to a structured patient consultation exercise, during which patients and assessors rated physician empathy. The exercise was audiotaped, transcribed, and content analyzed for verbal behaviors. Support was found for the hypotheses; however, patients, but not medical assessors, associated empathy with reassurance and provision of medical information.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 3%
Unknown 139 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 30 21%
Researcher 19 13%
Student > Master 16 11%
Student > Bachelor 13 9%
Student > Postgraduate 8 6%
Other 31 22%
Unknown 27 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 43 30%
Business, Management and Accounting 23 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 15 10%
Social Sciences 10 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 7 5%
Other 16 11%
Unknown 30 21%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 March 2008.
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#8,534,976
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#1,578
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#45,200
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Applied Psychology
#34
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