​CAROLINE E. MANN, PHD

Research

My research focuses on mental illness stigma and interventions to reduce prejudice in society. I enjoy this area, in part, because it lies at the intersection of social and clinical psychology, and requires interdisciplinary thinking. In the past, my studies have explored the mechanisms underlying stigma, with an emphasis on affective, interpersonal, and implicit processes. Ideally, elucidation of these mechanisms is not merely an exercise in psychological inquiry, but a resource for developing interventions aimed at reducing prejudice among the public.  

 

Feel free to use any of these resources or publications in your research or teaching (with proper citation of course).

Stigma & prejudice measures

 

Some handy-dandy links to measures of mental illness stigma and prejudice I have used in my resaerch. 

 

First-person narartive stimulus materials:

• audio interview with college student who has bipolar disorder (fictional)

• audio interview with college student who has HIV (fictional, based on Batson's materials)

Mental Illness Vignettes, for use with social distance scale: 

• WITH diagnostic language: schizophrenia and depression vignettes

• WITHOUT diagnostic language: schizophrenia and depression vignettes

• WITH diagnostic language AND behavioral description intermixed: bipolar I and schizophrenia vignette

Other:

• Breif attitudes toward treatment scale

 

Publications

• Putting the person back into psychopathology: An intervention to reduce mental illness stigma in the classroom (Mann & Himelein, 2008) 

 

• Factors associated the the stigmatization of persons with mental illness (Mann & Himelein, 2004)

 

Selected Presentations/Posters

• Peeking Inside Stigma: Development of an implicit measure of mental illness stigma (Mann, Olson, Hamamitsu, 2012).

 

• Comparing efficacy of a first-person narrativeintervention to reduce prejudice toward persons with mental illness vs. persons with HIV (Mann, Olson, Smith, & Prioty, 2012)

 

• Natural perspective-taking orientation as a moderator in prejudice interventions: When does it matter? (Mann & Olson, 2011)

 

• In a stranger’s shoes: The role of perspective-taking in reducing mental illness stigma (Mann, Olson, & Smith, 2009)