Can Coronavirus Become a Social Stigma?

Can psychology become a science?

I am profoundly grateful to Tom Bouchard for helping me learn to think scientifically. Scientific thinking, which is characterized by a set of safeguards against confirmation bias, does not come naturally to the human species, as the relatively recent appearance of science in history attests. Even today, scientific thinking is in woefully short supply in many domains of psychology, including cl...

Can triconcepts become triclusters?

Can triconcepts become triclusters? Dmitry I. Ignatov a , Sergei O. Kuznetsov a , Jonas Poelmans a b & Leonid E. Zhukov a a School of Applied Mathematics and Information Science & Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Structural Analysis , National Research University Higher School of Economics , Moscow , Russia b Faculty of Economics and Business , Katholieke Universiteit , Leuven , Belgium P...

Adolescent Pregnancy, A Social Stigma

In previous centuries adolescent pregnancy was normal but in developed countries in 20th century teenage mothers are common [1]. According to the definition of WHO Adolescent pregnancy can be defined as pregnancy in between the age of 15 to 19 years of age [2]. Early marriage, lack of knowledge of contraceptive methods , drug abuse, adverse childhood environment are the leading causes of early ...

Can multiple myeloma become a curable disease?

Can stigma become a resource? The mobilisation of aesthetic–corporal capital by female immigrant entrepreneurs from Brazil

The proportion and visibility of Brazilian women and particularly the specific images of Brazil and Brazilians in the Portuguese imaginary have contributed to the construction of new versions of stigma and stereotypes surrounding them. Mainstream images of Brazilian women have incorporated prejudices about the sensuality of Creole women who are reminiscent of the Portuguese colonial imaginary. ...

Managing Stigma Effectively: What Social Psychology and Social Neuroscience Can Teach Us.

Psychiatric education is confronted with three barriers to managing stigma associated with mental health treatment. First, there are limited evidence-based practices for stigma reduction, and interventions to deal with stigma against mental health care providers are especially lacking. Second, there is a scarcity of training models for mental health professionals on how to reduce stigma in clin...