Background Traditionally, clinical decision making has been perceived as a purely rational
and cognitive process. Recently, a number of authors have linked emotional intelligence (EI) …

Background Placebo and nocebo effects embody psychoneurobiological phenomena where
behavioural, neurophysiological, perceptive and cognitive changes occur during the …

Background Physical therapy, along with most health professions, struggles to describe
clinical reasoning, despite it being a vital skill in effective patient care. This lack of a unified …

In an era of high technology and low trust, acknowledging and coping with uncertainty is
more crucial than ever. Medical uncertainty has been considered an innate feature of …

The interdisciplinarity of the Social Engineering (SE) domain creates crucial challenges for
the development and advancement of empirical SE research, making it particularly difficult to …

In an age where practicing physicians have access to an overwhelming volume of clinical
information and are faced with increasingly complex medical decisions, the ability to execute …

Background: The link between clinical education and development of clinical reasoning is
not well supported by one theoretical perspective. Learning to reason during clinical …

Background All thinking occurs in some sort of context, rendering the relation between
context and clinical reasoning a matter of significant interest. Context, however, has a …

Background Situated cognition theory argues that thinking is inextricably situated in a
context. In clinical reasoning, this can lead to context specificity: a physician arriving at two …

Introduction Studies have shown that a physician's clinical reasoning performance can be
influenced by contextual factors. We explored how the clinical reasoning performance of …