People struggling with mental illness, from the mildest and most routine to the intractable and utterly devastating, are also burdened by the stereotypes and prejudices of stigmatization. The stigma ...

Territorial stigmatization refers to the process by which certain places become marked as undesirable, unsafe or deficient, owing to a combination of social, economic and political factors. These ...

OBJECTIVE: To examine sex differences in children's weight-based stigmatization. DESIGN: School-based sample of children evaluating qualities of children of varying weights. SUBJECTS: Thirty-four ...

Bogota, Colombia — Information manipulation and misinformation are not new phenomena, but they have taken on exaggerated importance, especially with the massive use of social media. Hostile and ...

2:12 Some people in Toronto coronavirus hotspots afraid of association to COVID-19 Inequality has been one of the driving factors in the spread of COVID-19 in Toronto, but what is less known is the ...

Misconceptions about trauma can be further isolating for survivors. Source: Jordy Meow/Unsplash Interpersonal trauma or traumatic events that are inflicted by others (e.g., sexual assault, childhood ...

The stigmatization of mental illness is well-documented, and many of us witness it on a daily basis, even if we don’t realize it. But with more than one in five adults suffering from mental health ...