Stigma & Social Exclusion Research Program
Understanding the roots of stigma, the development of interventions, and the scientific vetting and efficacy of change efforts
- Senior Research Program Leader:
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Bernice Pescosolido
- Continuity Lead:
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Wendy Miller
- Core Faculty:
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Edlin Garcia
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Sagar Samtani
Indiana University is the home of the National Stigma Studies and includes scientists who have researched the prejudice and discrimination attached to mental illness, opioid addiction, alcohol abuse, autism, epilepsy and HIV/Aids. This has centered on understanding the roots of stigma, the development of interventions, and the scientific vetting and efficacy of change efforts.
Current Research Projects
- Connect to Care in Schools Study
- National Stigma Studies
- Person to Person Health Interview Study
Selected Publications
Contact Reduces Substance Use Stigma Through Bad Character Attributions, Especially for US Health Care Professionals
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Contact reduces substance use stigma through bad character attributions, especially for US healthcare professionals.
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Selfie Videos to Reduce Stigma and Increase Treatment Seeking Among Youths: Two Noninferiority Randomized Controlled Trials
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Stigma Toward Substance Dependence: Causes, Consequences, and Potential Interventions
Addiction onset and offset characteristics and public stigma toward people with common substance dependencies: A large national survey experiment
Association of Condom Use Advocacy with Perceived Condom Use Among Social Network Members: The Mediating Role of Advocates' Internalized HIV Stigma and Own Condom Use
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Association of social network characteristics with HIV knowledge, stigma, and testing: findings from a study of racial and ethnic minority women in a small Western city
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Cultivating Contact: How Social Norms Can Reduce Mental Illness Stigma in College Populations
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Labeling, causal attributions, and social network ties to people with mental illness
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Public Stigma and Personal Networks: Confronting the Limitations of Unidimensional Measures of Social Contact
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