Entry:

Hall, Judith A.; Epstein, Arnold M.; DeCiantis, Mary Lou; and McNeil, Barbara J., "Physicians' Liking for their Patients: More Evidence for the Role of Affect in Medical Care," Health Psychology, 12 (1993), 140-146.

Abstract:

Patients who are healthier are liked more by their physicians than are less healthy patients. Physicians like their patients more when the physicians are less experienced and female. Physicians like male patients more than they like female patients.

1972-1980