The social psychology of disability.

Dunn, Dana S.

doi:10.1037/15972-026

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“…By attempting to reduce stigma at the societal level, this training is consistent with the social model of disability [9]. It takes the onus off the person with the disability and places it on society, including the clinicians who define the person's disability.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, social psychological and disability studies perspectives, which promote a social construction model of disability [9], would suggest that a more appropriate and powerful way to improve communication for people with FP would be to attempt to change the way others perceive them. An intervention of this nature could be administered to people who are likely to interact with people with FP, such as healthcare providers and educators.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Looking beyond the face: A training to improve perceivers’ impressions of people with facial paralysis

Bogart

Tickle-Degnen

2015

Patient Education and Counseling

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Objective Healthcare providers and lay people alike tend to form inaccurate first impressions of people with facial movement disorders such as facial paralysis (FP) because of the natural tendency to base impressions on the face. This study tested the effectiveness of the first interpersonal sensitivity training for FP. Methods Undergraduate participants were randomly assigned to one of two training conditions or an untrained control. Education raised awareness about FP symptoms and experiences and instructed participants to form their impressions based on cues from the body and voice rather than the face. Education+feedback added feedback about the correctness of participants’ judgments. Subsequently, participants watched 30 s video clips of people with FP and rated their extraversion. Results Participants’ bias and accuracy in the two training conditions did not significantly differ, but they were significantly less biased than controls. Training did not improve the more challenging task of accurately detecting individual differences in extraversion. Conclusion Educating people improves bias, but not accuracy, of impressions of people with FP. Practice Implications Information from the education condition could be delivered in a pamphlet to those likely to interact with this population such as healthcare providers and educators.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Looking beyond the face: A training to improve perceivers’ impressions of people with facial paralysis

Bogart

Tickle-Degnen

2015

Patient Education and Counseling

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“…Likewise, the disability stigma literature provides extensive analysis of the characteristics of disability that appear to be most threatening to observers (Feldman & Crandall, ; Jones et al., ; Kurzban & Leary, ). The fact that disablism is also understood in interpersonal terms is not surprising given the confluence of the individual‐level focus of prejudice and stigma research (Allport, ; Jones et al., ) and the individualizing medical model of disability which has informed much of contemporary understandings of what constitutes the disability stigma (Dunn, ; Fine & Asch, ; Olkin & Pledger, ; Smart, ).…”

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Disability Models Affect Disability Policy Support through Awareness of Structural Discrimination

Dirth

Branscombe

2017

Journal of Social Issues

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In three studies (N = 340) we examined the effects of medical versus social model representations of physical disability on awareness of structural discrimination and prodisability policy support among nondisabled persons. In all three studies, we found either an indirect (Studies 1 and 2) or full mediational effect of awareness of structural discrimination on the relationship between social model representations and policy support. Study 1 provided correlational evidence using individual social model endorsement as the predictor variable, while in Studies 2 and 3 experimentally manipulated model of disability. Finally, Study 3 provided evidence that medical model representations reduce prodisability policy support by encouraging the legitimization of the status quo.

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“…These theorists built on the theoretical foundation of Kurt Lewin's social psychology, namely that behavior is a function of the person and his or her perceived environment: B = f (P, E) (see Dunn, in press). This classic formulation led Wright to observe the need to conduct within- rather than between-group research on people with disabilities, noting that there was little useful psychological knowledge regarding disability to be gained by comparing people with disabilities to “normative” (non-disabled) groups (e.g., Wright, 1983).…”

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The place and promise of theory in rehabilitation psychology research.

Dunn¹,

Elliott²

2008

Rehabilitation Psychology

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Objective-Although rehabilitation psychology is more focused on empirical evidence and clinical application than theory development, we argue for the primacy of theory, and explain why theories are needed in and useful for rehabilitation psychology. Impediments to theory development are discussed, including the difficulties of applying psychological theories in multidisciplinary enterprises, and the difficulties in developing a theory-driven research program. We offer suggestions by reviewing research settings, knowledge gained through controlled studies, grantsmanship, and then identify topical areas where new theories are needed. We remind researcher-practitioners that rehabilitation psychology benefits from a judicious mix of scientific rigor and real-world vigor.Conclusions-We close by advocating for theory-driven research programs that embrace a methodological pluralism, which will in turn advance new theory, produce meaningful research programs that inform practice, and realize the goals of this special issue of Rehabilitation Psychology -advances in research and methodology.

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The social psychology of disability.

Cited by 60 publications

References 89 publications

Looking beyond the face: A training to improve perceivers’ impressions of people with facial paralysis

Looking beyond the face: A training to improve perceivers’ impressions of people with facial paralysis

Disability Models Affect Disability Policy Support through Awareness of Structural Discrimination

The place and promise of theory in rehabilitation psychology research.

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