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Clinical judgement and the emotions
Author(s) -
Boyd G.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
internal medicine journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 1444-0903
DOI - 10.1111/imj.12463
Subject(s) - judgement , medicine , rationality , clinical judgement , clinical judgment , clinical decision making , cognitive psychology , epistemology , psychology , family medicine , medical physics , philosophy
The basic emotions are more important in decision making than we think. So we need to be aware of them and look not just for rationality in our clinical judgements but rational judgements that ‘feel’ right.