As opposed to clinical practitioners, who search for individualistic understanding of human behavior. clinical researchers search for general truths about abnormality. The approach of clinical researchers is:
A. idiosyncratic
B. nomosynthetic
C. nomothetic
D. idiographic
Answer: C. nomothetic
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