Research Area/ Research Interest: Stigma Psychology

Research Paper Topics for Masters and Ph.D. Thesis and publication.

1. The social psychology of stigma
2. Lessons from social psychology on discrediting psychiatric stigma.
3. Sexual orientation differences as deficits: Science and stigma in the history of American psychology
4. Lessons from social psychology on discrediting psychiatric stigma.
5. Social psychology of the stigma of mental illness: Public and self-stigma models.
6. Understanding stigma.
7. Sources of stigma: Analyzing the psychology of affirmative action
8. Can stigma explain large property value losses? The psychology and economics of Superfund
9. Stigma: Introduction and overview.
10. Social stigma and the self: Meanings, situations, and self-esteem.
11. Using celebrities in abnormal psychology as teaching tools to decrease stigma and increase help-seeking
12. Managing stigma effectively: what social psychology and social neuroscience can teach us
13.  Stigma and group inequality: Social psychological perspectives
14. Effect of a Serious Game (Stigma-Stop) on Reducing Stigma Among Psychology Students: A Controlled Study
15. Conceptualizing stigma
16. Presidential address: Social psychology of difference: Stigma, spread, and stereotypes in childhood.
17. Disgust sensitivity, obesity stigma, and gender: Contamination psychology predicts weight bias for women, not men
18.  Stigma and sexual orientation
19. Covered in stigma? The impact of differing levels of I slamic head‐covering on explicit and implicit biases toward M uslim women
20. Addressing mental illness stigma in the psychology classroom
21. The social construction of stigma: Utilizing discursive psychology for advancing the conceptualization of stigma in mental health.
22. Stigma and stereotypes.
23. Perceptions of and responses to stigma
24. Stigma and social exclusion
25.  The Oxford handbook of stigma, discrimination, and health
26. Removing the stigma: Fifteen years of progress.
27. The social psychology of stigma
28.  Stigma
29. Reducing mental illness stigma in the classroom
30. AIDS and stigma
31. Stigma-busting, compeer, and the psychology student: A pilot study on the impact of contact with a person who has a mental illness.
32. Coping with Stigma: Challenges & Opportunities
33.  The dilemma of difference: A multidisciplinary view of stigma
34. Referring men to seek help: The influence of gender role conflict and stigma.
35. Social stigma and the potential costs of assunptive help
36. Unravelling the contexts of stigma: from internalisation to resistance to change
37. Stigma Associated With AIDS: A Meta‐Analysis1
38. From whence comes mental illness stigma?
39. Stigma of psychological therapy: Stereotypes, interpersonal reactions, and the self-fulfilling prophecy.
40.  Stigma and mental illness
41. Resisting the stigma of mental illness
42. Individual differences in the phenomenological impact of social stigma
43. Weight stigma is stressful. A review of evidence for the Cyclic Obesity/Weight-Based Stigma model
44. Stigma and the social basis of the self: A synthesis
45. Attitudes towards anorexia nervosa: volitional stigma differences in a sample of pre-clinical medicine and psychology students
46. Measuring the impact of programs that challenge the public stigma of mental illness
47. Social stigma and its consequences for the socially stigmatized
48. The social psychology of stigma
49. Stigma and status: The interrelation of two theoretical perspectives
50. A Naturalistic Analysis of Mental Illness Stigma in Undergraduate Psychology Courses
51. Stigma consciousness: the psychological legacy of social stereotypes.
52. The stigma of obesity in women: The difference is black and white
53. Covering up what can’t be seen: concealable stigma and mental control.
54. Social Psychological Models of Mental Illness Stigma.
55. A Social-Cognitive Model of Personal Responses to Stigma.
56. Perceived stigma, social support, and depression
57. The way they speak: A social psychological perspective on the stigma of nonnative accents in communication
58. The role of stigma and referral source in predicting college student-athletes’ attitudes toward psychological help-seeking
59. Rethinking theoretical approaches to stigma: A framework integrating normative influences on stigma (FINIS)
60.  Confronting the stigma of epilepsy
61. Physical illness stigma and social rejection
62. The impact of mental illness stigma.
63. Stigma and intellectual disability: potential application of mental illness research.
64. Stigma and discrimination in health‐care provision to drug users: The role of values, affect, and deservingness judgments
65. The infection of bad company: stigma by association.
66. Weight stigma mediates the association between BMI and self-reported health.
67. Discreditable: Stigma effects of revealing a mental illness history on test performance
68. Reducing mental illness stigma in the classroom: An expanded methodology
69. Review of Social stigma—The psychology of marked relationships.
70.  Stigma: How we treat outsiders
71. The fight against stigma: an overview of stigma-reduction strategies and interventions
72. Threat and the social construction of stigma.
73.  Stigma: Alive and well
74. Reactions to Stigma: The Moderating Role
75. Identity threat and stigma in cancer patients
76. Reducing mental illness stigma: Effectiveness of hearing about the normative experiences of others.
77. Stigma and compliance.
78. Studying sexuality: Strategies for surviving stigma
79. A prostitute’s lived experiences of stigma
80. Health-related stigma: rethinking concepts and interventions
81. Experiences of stigma by association among family members of people with mental illness.
82. Stigma management and well-being: The role of perceived social support, emotional processing, and suppression
83.  An epidemic of stigma: Public reactions to AIDS.
84. Exploration and validation of the dimensions of stigma
85. Is being “sick” really better? Effect of the disease view of mental disorder on stigma
86. The stigma of overweight: affective consequences of attributional ambiguity.
87. Ideology and lay theories of stigma: The justification of stigmatization
88. Positive stigma: Examining resilience and empowerment in overcoming stigma
89. When we observe stigmatized and” normal” individuals interacting: Stigma by association
90. Disentangling self-stigma: Are mental illness and help-seeking self-stigmas different?
91. Perceived public stigma and the willingness to seek counseling: The mediating roles of self-stigma and attitudes toward counseling.
92.  Mental health stigma: society, individuals, and the profession
93. Seeing disorder: Neighborhood stigma and the social construction of “broken windows”
94. Experiencing and coping with social stigma.
95. Labeling and stigma
96. Stay-at-home fathers’ reasons for entering the role and stigma experiences: A preliminary report.
97. Abortion as stigma: cognitive and emotional implications of concealment.
98. Ethnic differences in the stigma of obesity: Identification and engagement with a thin ideal
99. The use (and misuse) of the same-actor inference in family responsibilities discrimination litigation: Lessons from social psychology on flexibility stigma
100. Some thoughts about the stigma notion
101. A dual-process model of reactions to perceived stigma.
102. Layoffs and unemployment discrimination: A new stigma
103. Stigma on my mind: Individual differences in the experience of stereotype threat
104. Service-learning in abnormal psychology: Softening the implicit stigma against the mentally ill.
105. Cross-cultural validity of the Self-Stigma of Seeking Help (SSOSH) scale: Examination across six nations.
106.  On the stigma of mental illness
107. Examining two aspects of contact on the stigma of mental illness
108. Understanding public stigma toward substance dependence
109.  Stigma, prejudice and discrimination in global public health
110.  … students more susceptible to essentialist explanations for mental illness? Neuroessentialism and mental illness stigma in psychology and non-psychology …
111. Does self-stigma reduce the probability of seeking mental health information?
112. The burden of stigma on health and well-being: A taxonomy of concealment, course, disruptiveness, aesthetics, origin, and peril across 93 stigmas
113.  Social psychological perspectives on stigma: advances in theory and research
114. The stigma of suicide scale
115. Stigma, status, and population health
116. HIV-related stigma and psychological distress: the harmful effects of specific stigma manifestations in various social settings
117. Stigma: a social, cultural and moral process
118. Is obesity stigma based on perceptions of appearance or character? Theory, evidence, and directions for further study
119. Theories of Stigma: Limitations and Needed Directions.
120. Stigma and social inequality
121. Stigma and self-fulfilling prophecies
122.  Confronting sexual stigma and prejudice: Theory and practice
123. Role of stigma and set in interpersonal interaction.
124. Measuring the self-stigma associated with seeking psychological help.
125. Overt weight stigma, psychological distress and weight loss treatment outcomes
126. When stigma confronts stigma: Some conditions enhancing a victim’s tolerance of other victims
127. Using Shrek to Teach About Stigma
128.  The stigma of addiction: An essential guide
129.  Disability beyond stigma: Social interaction, discrimination, and activism
130. Stigma and prejudice: one animal or two?
131. A preliminary evaluation of internalized stigma and stigma resistance in inflammatory bowel disease
132. Attitudes toward career counseling: The role of public and self-stigma.
133. Stigma, concealment and symptoms of depression as explanations for sexually transmitted infections among gay men
134. Associative stigma: Perceptions of the difficulties of college-aged children of stigmatized fathers
135. The stigma of women’s weight: Social and economic realities
136. Social stigma and self-esteem: Situational construction of self-worth
137. The paradox of self-stigma and mental illness.
138. How does familiarity impact the stigma of mental illness?
139. Weighed down by stigma: How weight‐based social identity threat contributes to weight gain and poor health
140. Coping with stigma and prejudice.
141. Reducing AIDS-related stigma in developing countries: The importance of theory-and evidence-based interventions
142. Stigma, negative attitudes about treatment, and utilization of mental health care among soldiers
143. Spoiled group identities and backstage work: A theory of stigma management rehearsals
144.  Dispelling the stigma of schizophrenia
145. Blame, shame, and contamination: the impact of mental illness and drug dependence stigma on family members.
146. Associations of weight stigma with cortisol and oxidative stress independent of adiposity.
147. Social categorizations, social comparisons and stigma: Presentations of self in people with learning difficulties
148. Stigma, threat, and social interactions.
149. Releasing internalized stigma for empowerment: Development of theory-driven interventions for sexual and gender minorities
150. Stigma expression outcomes and boundary conditions: A meta-analysis
151. Rethinking the sociology of stigma
152. Disengagement and engagement coping with HIV/AIDS stigma and psychological well-being of people with HIV/AIDS
153. Predictors of HIV-related stigma among young people living with HIV.
154. The role of psychological flexibility in mental health stigma and psychological distress for the stigmatizer
155. Weight stigma in frequent exercisers: overt, demeaning and condescending
156. The Impact of Strengths-Based Assessment Education on Undergraduate Students’ Knowledge of Disorders and Mental Illness Stigma
157. Mental illness stigma and the fundamental components of supported employment.
158. The impact of stigma in healthcare on people living with chronic illnesses
159. Family matters: The role of mental health stigma and social support on depressive symptoms and subsequent help seeking among African American boys
160. Compensating for stigma: Obese and nonobese women’s reactions to being visible
161. Ethnic stigma as a contextual experience: A possible selves perspective
162. The stigma of having a parent with mental illness: Genetic attributions and associative stigma
163. HIV-related stigma: adapting a theoretical framework for use in India
164. How are perceived stigma, self-stigma, and self-reliance related to treatment-seeking? A three-path model.
165. Mental illness stigma and ethnocultural beliefs, values, and norms: An integrative review
166. Stigma: An enigma demystified
167. The psychological weight of weight stigma
168. Stigma sentiments and self-meanings: Exploring the modified labeling theory of mental illness
169. The Persistence of Stigma Reduction After Teaching Abnormal Psychology Using Celebrity Narratives
170. Stigma allure and white antiracist identity management
171. The stigma of obesity in customer service: a mechanism for remediation and bottom-line consequences of interpersonal discrimination.
172. “Boys don’t cry”: Examination of the links between endorsement of masculine norms, self-stigma, and help-seeking attitudes for men from diverse backgrounds.
173. Multiple stigma and AIDS: Illness stigma and attitudes toward homosexuals and IV drug users in AIDS‐related stigmatization
174. Stigma-related stressors, coping self-efficacy, and physical health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals.
175. Perceived parental religiosity as a predictor of depression and substance use among LGBTQ+ individuals: The mediating role of perceived familial stigma.
176. Cultural variation in implicit mental illness stigma
177. Self-compassion moderates the relationship of perceived public and anticipated self-stigma of seeking help.
178. Measuring HIV stigma: existing knowledge and gaps
179. Body image, perceived social stigma, and the prediction of psychosocial adjustment to leg amputation.
180. Towards a sustainable theory of health‐related stigma: lessons from the HIV/AIDS literature
181. The measure of sickle cell stigma: initial findings from the improving patient outcomes through respect and trust study
182. Mental illness stigma as a mediator of differences in Caucasian and South Asian college students’ attitudes toward psychological counseling.
183. Stigma consciousness in intergroup contexts: The power of conviction
184. Influence of character strengths on mental health stigma
185. Stigma: Implications for helping behavior.
186. The power threat meaning framework: Addressing adversity, challenging prejudice and stigma, and transforming services
187. Measuring health-related stigma—a literature review
188. Reducing the stigma associated with seeking psychotherapy through self-affirmation.
189. Countries and cultural differences in the stigma of mental illness: the east–west divide
190. Mental health and substance abuse treatment stigma among soldiers
191. The self–stigma of mental illness: Implications for self–esteem and self–efficacy
192. The impact of stigma on psychosocial outcomes following spinal cord injury: A cross-sectional analysis of stigma-mediated relationships.
193. Avoiding stigma by association: Subtle prejudice against lesbians in the form of social distancing
194.  Stigma: The psychology and economics of superfund
195. Stigma and the sociological enterprise
196. Explicit and implicit stigma against individuals with mental illness
197. Putting the person back into psychopathology: an intervention to reduce mental illness stigma in the classroom
198. The psychological impact of genital herpes stigma
199. Mental health stigma: Impact on mental health treatment attitudes and physical health
200. Seeking help despite the stigma: Experiential avoidance as a moderated mediator.
201. Implicit and explicit stigma of mental illness in diagnosed and healthy samples
202. Stigma and attitudes towards restrictive practices in psychiatry among psychology students: a network and path analysis study in an Italian sample
203. Stigma consciousness at work
204. A social marketing approach to challenging stigma.
205. Stressors for gay men and lesbians: Life stress, gay-related stress, stigma consciousness, and depressive symptoms
206.  Social stigma and disadvantage: Current themes and future prospects
207. Age differences in public stigma, self‐stigma, and attitudes toward seeking help: A moderated mediation model
208. Experiences of weight stigma in everyday life: an ecological momentary assessment study
209. Reducing the stigma of mental illness: Current approaches and future directions.
210. Virtually interactive: A new paradigm for the analysis of stigma
211. Stigma, culture, and HIV and AIDS in the Western Cape, South Africa: An application of the PEN-3 cultural model for community-based research
212. Reducing the stigma of mental disorders at work: a review of current workplace anti-stigma intervention programs
213.  Middle class and marginal? Socioeconomic status, stigma, and self-regulation at an elite university.
214. Symbolic prejudice or fear of infection? A functional analysis of AIDS-related stigma among heterosexual adults
215. Clinical impressions of depression and physical stigma.
216. Stigma and addiction: Being and becoming
217. Caste, social stigma and identity processes
218. Stigma by association: Parent stigma and youth adjustment in inflammatory bowel disease
219. Work to reduce stigma.
220. Profile of masculine norms and help-seeking stigma in college football.
221.  Stigma in mental health: perceptions of students who will be future health professionals
222. Oppression and stigma and their effects.
223. Perceived stigma and barriers to care for psychological treatment: Implications for reactions to stressors in different contexts
224. Stigma controllability and coping as predictors of emotions and social support
225. Dynamics of stigma for alcohol and mental health treatment among army soldiers
226. Relationship between number of disability-related conditions and stigma among US adults.
227. The stigma of obesity: does perceived weight discrimination affect identity and physical health?
228.  A multicentric study on stigma towards people with mental illness in health sciences students
229.  Stigma of schizophrenia: assessing attitudes among European University students
230. Measuring stigma across neurological conditions: the development of the stigma scale for chronic illness (SSCI)
231. Beyond personal responsibility: Effects of causal attributions for overweight and obesity on weight-related beliefs, stigma, and policy support.

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