Do people with mental illness deserve what they get? Links between meritocratic worldviews and implicit versus explicit stigma

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 260, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 617-625

  Rüsch, Nicolas ^a   Todd, Andrew R ^b   Bodenhausen, Galen V ^b   Corrigan, Patrick W ^a  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Implicit Association Test; Just world beliefs; Prejudice; Protestant ethic; Stigma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO MENTAL ILLNESS; COPING BEHAVIOR; ETHICS; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSIBILITY; SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL BELIEF; SOCIAL STIGMA; STEREOTYPY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 78751582179     PISSN: 09401334     EISSN: 14338491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00406-010-0111-4     Document Type: Article

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