The authors investigated the effect of reading a newspaper article reporting a violent crime
committed by a mental patient (target article) on attitudes toward people with mental …

Background Numerous studies have established proof of selective media reporting about
the mentally ill, with the majority of the reports focusing almost exclusively on violence and …

Newspapers are a primary source of information about a variety of topics, including mental
illnesses. A study of 1999 newspapers revealed that dangerousness is the most common …

The media are often identified as partially responsible for increasing the stigma of mental
illness through their negatively focused representations. For many years, training programs …

Because the public gets much of its knowledge of mental illness from the news media, it is
important to understand what those media report about mental illnesses. It is also useful to …

We examined the impact of media messages about mass shootings on participants' attitudes
toward people with mental illness. In a randomized experiment, 293 college students were …

An analysis of media content in April 1993 found that two-thirds of items dealing with mental
health issues forged a link between mental illness and violence. Using some of this material …

Undergraduate students (n= 102) were given the Community Attitudes Toward the Mentally
Ill (CAMI) questionnaire. Significant differences emerged on 3 of the 4 subscales, based on …

Two empirical studies examined whether the portrayal of mental disorders on television and
in films has an effect on people's knowledge about and attitudes toward the mentally ill …

The possible impact of a prime time television film portraying a mentally ill killer was
investigated. Groups of college students were shown the film with and without a film trailer …