作者: Paul Slovic , John Monahan
DOI: 10.1007/BF01499072
关键词: Risk perception 、 Legal psychology 、 Involuntary treatment 、 Harm 、 Forensic psychology 、 Mental health law 、 Social psychology 、 Young adult 、 Risk assessment 、 Psychology
摘要: Young adults were shown hypothetical stimulus vignettes describing mental patients and asked to judge (a) the probability that patient would harm someone else, (b) whether or not should be categorized as “dangerous,” (c) coercion used ensure treatment. Probability dangerousness judgments systematically related predictive of judged necessity for coercion. However, was strongly dependent on form response scale, suggesting represented consistently quantitatively in participants' minds. Study 2 replicated these findings with forensic clinicians participants. These results underscore importance violence others health law have important implications manner which risk assessments are formulated use by legal system.