“…Previous studies in Japan, Australia, and the United States have highlighted that a large part of the general population held stereotypes that individuals with schizophrenia were dangerous (Corrigan et al, 2002;Griffiths et al, 2006). In newspapers, 14-49% of articles on mental illness were linked to danger (Goulden et al, 2011;Magliano et al, 2011;Nawkova et al, 2012;Whitley and Berry, 2013). Furthermore, newspaper coverage of schizophrenia has been shown to be disproportionately negative compared with other psychiatric conditions in previous studies in the United Kingdom (Goulden et al, 2011;Thornicroft et al, 2013), Belgium (Thys et al, 2013), Czech Republic, Croatia, and Slovakia (Nawkova et al, 2012).…”