Reducing stigma is crucial for facilitating recovery from psychological problems. Viewing
these problems biomedically may reduce the tendency to blame affected persons, but critics …

The scientific literature on stigma has been confused because there are multiple
components of stigma with different correlates. In order to make sense of this confusion, the …

Stigma may differ depending on the timing of group-membership entry, whether a person
was “born that way” or “became that way.” Disability, a highly understudied minority group …

Objective: Previous studies have found biological conceptualizations of psychopathology to
be associated with stigmatizing attitudes and prognostic pessimism. This research …

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‘SCHIZOPHRENIA’ The role of bio-genetic ideology John Read, Nick Haslam and Lorenza …

Abstract Background Guided by Attribution Theory, this study assessed stigmatizing attitudes
towards an individual with anorexia nervosa (AN) compared to obesity and skin cancer, and …

Genetic essentialism suggests that beliefs in genetic causes of mental illness will inflate a
desire for social distance from affected individuals, regardless of specific disorder. However …

There is disagreement in the literature as to whether biological attribution increases or
decreases stigma. This study investigated the effect of an online biological intervention on …

Purpose Developmental stuttering is a fluency disorder that may be caused by neurological,
genetic, or familial factors. However, a general perception that stuttering is caused by …

Objective Suicidal persons often face public stigmatization which affects help‐seeking
behavior and may lead to an additional suicide risk. There is not much known about …