2015
DOI: 10.1177/1948550615597976
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The “Empty Vessel” Physician

Abstract: Although much research examines how physicians perceive their patients, here we study how patients perceive physicians. We propose patients consider their physicians like personally emotionless ''empty vessels'': The higher is individuals' need for care, the less they value physicians' traits related to their personal lives (e.g., self-focused emotions), but the more they value physicians' traits related to patients (e.g., patient-focused emotions). In an initial study, participants recalled fewer personal fac… Show more

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“…Although competence is also associated with some types of mental abilities, it may not always increase the overall perceptions of minds, which is also shown in our findings. Previous work has shown that competence may sometimes even reduce mind attribution, such as in the case of medical doctors (Schroeder & Fishbach, 2015) and business people (Haslam, Loughnan, Reynolds, & Wilson, 2007), particularly when the focus is put on the instrumentality of the entities (e.g., Schroeder & Fishbach, 2015). It is possible that competence creates counteracting forces that offset each other, thereby nullifying the effect of competence on group mind perception in study 3.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…Although competence is also associated with some types of mental abilities, it may not always increase the overall perceptions of minds, which is also shown in our findings. Previous work has shown that competence may sometimes even reduce mind attribution, such as in the case of medical doctors (Schroeder & Fishbach, 2015) and business people (Haslam, Loughnan, Reynolds, & Wilson, 2007), particularly when the focus is put on the instrumentality of the entities (e.g., Schroeder & Fishbach, 2015). It is possible that competence creates counteracting forces that offset each other, thereby nullifying the effect of competence on group mind perception in study 3.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…The commentators responded to my critique of the dehumanization hypothesis by outlining a wide range of data that they believe support their various formulations. There are data suggesting that we sometimes dehumanize racial groups, national groups, individuals who attend different universities, cyclists, artists, businessmen, asexuals, individuals with mental-health problems, doctors, and people with particularly wide faces (Delbosc et al, 2019;Deska et al, 2018;Goff et al, 2008;Haslam, 2006;Leyens et al, 2007;Loughnan & Haslam, 2007;MacInnis & Hodson, 2012;Schroeder & Fishbach, 2015).…”
Section: The Dehumanization Hypothesis and The Alternativesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Beyond examining how pandemics beget taint in occupations, research on how the experience of taint affects dirty workers is an area for opportunity. As some examples, customers and members of the public who are engaging in social distancing may lead dirty workers to feel invisible, servile, or dehumanized (Ashforth & Kreiner, 1999;Rabelo & Mahalingam, 2019;Schroeder & Fishbach, 2015). On the other hand, dirty workers themselves may begin to see customers and clients as a source of taint, such as one store employee who exclaimed, "Customers were climbing all over me and I wanted a hazmat suit" (Mull, 2020).…”
Section: Pandemics Can Create Occupational Taintmentioning
confidence: 99%