DISTINCTIVE DISORDERS ARE LESS PREVALENT

Authors
HASLAM N VUCHETICH JP
Citation
N. Haslam et Jp. Vuchetich, DISTINCTIVE DISORDERS ARE LESS PREVALENT, Psychological reports, 81(1), 1997, pp. 160-162
Citations number
3
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology
Journal title
Psychological reports → ACNP
ISSN journal
00332941
Volume
81
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
160 - 162
Database
ISI
SICI code
0033-2941(1997)81:1<160:DDALP>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
To test the hypothesis that nosologies are biased towards recognizing highly distinctive syndromes and therefore conflate those that are les s distinctive, eight subjects judged the distinctiveness of 33 DSM-IV disorders and 20 rheumatic disorders. As predicted, judged distinctive ness was negatively correlated with prevalence for both sets of disord ers.