A new study by researchers at Yale and Georgia State University found that explicit gender stereotypes may bias physicians’ assessments of children’s pain.
The team found that under identical clinical circumstances and identical reactions of pain, a male child was rated as experiencing more pain than a female one. Led by philosophy and psychology joint doctoral student Brian Earp GRD ’22, the paper was published on Jan. 4 in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology.
“Pain is an inherently private experience, and children are especially at the mercy of other people’s judgments, which makes it all the more important to examine biases in pediatric pain assessment,” said Joshua Monrad ’20, the second author of the study.
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