Question

Which of the following is an explanation for the clinician's illusion?

Answer 1

Answer: The correct answer is: b) Clinicians tend to see only those who react emotionally to stress, so they overestimate people's fragility and understimate their resilience.

Explanation: Clinicians have the tendency to overestimate the number of people with mental health issues because on their day to day work-life they treat a mayority of individuals that react emotionally to stress.

It is likely that they experience availability bias which is understood as the human tendency to think that examples of things that come readily to mind  are more representative than they actually are.

Thus they experience the clinician's illusion which is the tendency to overestimate people's fragility and underestimate their resilience mainly because on a daily basis they tend to see only individuals who react emotionally to stress.