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Title:: Stereotypes of Doctor’s Role and Their Intergroup Differencesbetween Doctors and Patients

Keywords:: stereotype content model; word association test; doctor-patient relationship

Abstract:: The study used the questionnaire of stereotype content model（ Chinese version） and the wordassociation test to investigate the stereotypes of“ doctors” and intergroup differences between doctors andpatients. The patients tended to classify the doctors as a group with high ability but low enthusiasm，whilethe doctors had significant in-group preferences in the ethical dimension. Meanwhile，the patients had morepositive results in the word association test，while the doctors had almost equal number of positive words andnegative words in the same test. The patients tended to think doctors have high quality life with a high incomeand hence have high anticipations on doctors，and however the doctors inclined to think they themselves area group with low income and under high pressure，gaining less than what they deserve. These differences arepotential sources of doctor-patient conflicts and subsequent studies will further concentrate on the formationmechanism and measures for managing the impression of those stereotypes.