My research broadly focuses on mental health stigma and this Fellowship project explores mental health stigma via deliberate and automatic cognition processes. This project utilizes a concept association task (CAT) to capture how people implicitly associate various concepts with different health conditions. If you have ever taken a free implicit association test (IAT) online orContinue reading “Visualizing Mental Maps and Countering Mental Health Stigma”
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Visualizing Public Perceptions of Mental Health Stereotypes
Over 40 million adults each year in the U.S. contend with mental health issues, many of whom do not receive quality treatment (NAMI 2018; NIMH 2015). These individuals are often subjected to stigmatization: the social process within social relationships involving the devaluing of someone through ‘conferring labels and stereotyping’ (Pescosolido and Martin 2015). While stigmaContinue reading “Visualizing Public Perceptions of Mental Health Stereotypes”