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BJ Norton, PT, is Instructor, Program in Physical Therapy, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S Euclid Ave, St Louis, MO 63110

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Physical therapists with little or no formal training in cognitive social psychology, judgment analysis, decision theory, or measurement theory might find this article difficult to analyze critically for at least two reasons. First, therapists without such a background may have little basis for deciding whether the line of reasoning that led to the posing of the specific hypotheses stated in the report is reasonable. Second, because some of the terms used in this article either are not commonly used by physical therapists or are used with less specificity by physical therapists than in the context of psychological theory, misinterpretation is possible. Nonetheless, the article raises several issues that are important for clinicians to consider....

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