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Biological Explanations and Stigmatizing Attitudes: Using Essentialism and Perceived Dangerousness to Predict Antistigma Intervention Effectiveness

Guy A. Boysen State University of New York, FredoniaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 274-291 | Received 12 Mar 2009, Accepted 02 Feb 2010, Published online: 19 Apr 2011

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Aleksandra Huic, Margareta Jelic & Zeljka Kamenov. (2018) Essentialist Beliefs About Homosexuality Predict Positive and Negative Behavioral Intentions Toward Lesbian Women and Gay Men. Journal of Homosexuality 65:12, pages 1631-1655.
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Daniel Dittrich, Kristina Dernbach, Sven Speerforck, Stephanie Schindler, Jan A. Häusser & Georg Schomerus. (2021) Testing the mixed-blessings model: What is the role of essentialism for stigmatizing attitudes towards schizophrenia?. Current Psychology 42:4, pages 3112-3121.
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Iris Berent & Melanie Platt. (2021) Essentialist Biases Toward Psychiatric Disorders: Brain Disorders Are Presumed Innate. Cognitive Science 45:4.
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Kristin M. Kostick, Cody Brannan, Stacey Pereira & Gabriel Lázaro‐Muñoz. (2018) Psychiatric genetics researchers' views on offering return of results to individual participants. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 180:8, pages 589-600.
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Cody Brannan, Alexandra L. Foulkes & Gabriel Lázaro‐Muñoz. (2018) Preventing discrimination based on psychiatric risk biomarkers. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 180:2, pages 159-171.
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Florencia Reali, Tania Soriano & Daniela Rodríguez. (2016) How we think about depression: The role of linguistic framing. Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología 48:2, pages 127-136.
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Andrew J. Howell, Justine A. Ulan & Russell A. Powell. (2014) Essentialist beliefs, stigmatizing attitudes, and low empathy predict greater endorsement of noun labels applied to people with mental disorders. Personality and Individual Differences 66, pages 33-38.
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G. Schomerus, H. Matschinger & M. C. Angermeyer. (2013) Causal beliefs of the public and social acceptance of persons with mental illness: a comparative analysis of schizophrenia, depression and alcohol dependence. Psychological Medicine 44:2, pages 303-314.
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Erlend P. Kvaale, William H. Gottdiener & Nick Haslam. (2013) Biogenetic explanations and stigma: A meta-analytic review of associations among laypeople. Social Science & Medicine 96, pages 95-103.
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Erlend P. Kvaale, Nick Haslam & William H. Gottdiener. (2013) The ‘side effects’ of medicalization: A meta-analytic review of how biogenetic explanations affect stigma. Clinical Psychology Review 33:6, pages 782-794.
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Andrew J. Howell & Sarah R. Woolgar. (2013) Essentialism and compassion: Predicting preference for noun labels applied to people with mental disorders. Personality and Individual Differences 54:1, pages 87-91.
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Guy A. Boysen & Justine D. Gabreski. (2012) The Effect of Combined Etiological Information on Attitudes About Mental Disorders Associated with Violent and Nonviolent Behaviors. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 31:8, pages 852-877.
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