Challenging or Reinforcing Social Prejudice?

Social interaction in pain: reinforcing pain behaviors or building intimacy?

Scientific Pride or Prejudice

To characterize patient satisfaction surveys, such as the U.S. government-mandated Press Ganey health care performance improvement tools, as unpopular among health care providers is an understatement. So it comes as no real surprise that among medical practitioners a recent internet headline went viral that “reported” that a major patient satisfaction study was stopped due to a mortality increa...

Stigma: ignorance, prejudice or discrimination?

The term stigma refers to problems of knowledge (ignorance), attitudes (prejudice) and behaviour (discrimination). Most research in this area has been based on attitude surveys, media representations of mental illness and violence, has only focused upon schizophrenia, has excluded direct participation by service users, and has included few intervention studies. However, there is evidence that i...

Social influence effects on automatic racial prejudice.

Although most research on the control of automatic prejudice has focused on the efficacy of deliberate attempts to suppress or correct for stereotyping, the reported experiments tested the hypothesis that automatic racial prejudice is subject to common social influence. In experiments involving actual interethnic contact, both tacit and expressed social influence reduced the expression of autom...

[Social representations of tuberculosis: stigma and prejudice].

Social representations of tuberculosis are analyzed at the turn of the 20th century, focusing on aspects associated to feelings and contradictory manifestations awakened by the disease. The romanticized pattern of experience of this disease was replaced by a more naturalistic vision, though the stigmas and prejudices are reinforced. To this day it is possible to detect some aspects about the wa...