Neuroscientific explanations and the stigma of mental disorder: a meta-analytic study

Loughman, Amy; Haslam, Nick

doi:10.1186/s41235-018-0136-1

Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

Table 1 Types of neurobiological explanations measured or presented in the various studies

From: Neuroscientific explanations and the stigma of mental disorder: a meta-analytic study

Study	Year	Type(s) of explanation	Experimental or correlational
Angermeyer & Matschinger*	2003	Brain disease	Correlational
Angermeyer et al.	2015	Brain disease	Correlational
Angermeyer et al.	2013	Brain disease	Correlational
Arens, Berger, & Lincoln*	2009	Brain disease	Correlational
Aspinwall et al.*	2012	Brain dysfunction	Experimental
Bag, Yilmaz, & Kirpinar*	2006	Brain disease	Correlational
Cheng	2015	Chemical imbalance	Experimental
Deacon & Baird*	2009	Chemical imbalance	Experimental
Dietrich et al.*	2004	Brain disease	Correlational
Dietrich, Matschinger, & Angermeyer*	2006	Brain disease	Correlational
Jorm & Griffiths*	2008	Virus or infection	Correlational
Kemp, Lickel, & Deacon	2014	Chemical imbalance	Experimental
Koschade & Lynd-Stevenson	2011	Chemical imbalance	Correlational
Lam & Salkovskis*	2007	Chemical imbalance and brain dysfunction	Experimental
Lincoln, Arens, Berger, & Rief*	2008	Brain disease and brain damage	Correlational
Luty, Easow, & Mendes	2011	Chemical disturbance	Experimental
Martin, Pescosolido, & Tuch*	2000	Chemical imbalance	Correlational
Martin, Pescosolido, Olafsdottir, & McLeod*	2007	Chemical imbalance	Correlational
Mehta & Farina*	1997	Disease with biochemical effects	Experimental
Meurk, Carter, Partridge, Lucke, & Hall	2014	Brain chemistry	Correlational
Pirutinsky, Rosen, Safran, & Rosmarin*	2010	Chemical imbalance	Correlational
Reavley & Jorm	2014	Composite of genetic and chemical imbalance explanations	Correlational
Rusch, Todd, Bodenhausen, & Corrigan*	2010	Brain disorder caused by changes in brain metabolism	Correlational
Schnittker*	2008	Chemical imbalance	Correlational
Speerforck et al.	2014	Chemical imbalance and brain disease	Correlational
Van’t Veer, Kraan, Drosseart, & Modde*	2006	Brain dysfunction	Correlational

*Studies that were also included in the Kvaale, Gottdiener, and Haslam (2013), Kvaale, Haslam, and Gottdiener (2013) meta-analyses

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