Mental Health and Society Research Lab

@mhandsociety.bsky.social

Official account of the research lab on mental health and society, headed by Georg Schomerus | Psychiatrie und Gesellschaft | Uni Leipzig

📻 Heute 20 Uhr läuft die Aufzeichnung der RAUSCH & STIGMA Veranstaltung vom Januar bei Radioblau - und ist danach 7 Tage in der Mediathek 🎧 👇https://www.radioblau.de/redaktion/rausch-und-stigma/ @geschom.bsky.social

Mental Health and Society Research Lab@mhandsociety.bsky.social · 2y ago

🍿nächste Runde RAUSCH & STIGMA am 21.01. mit der Suchtbeauftragten der @stadtleipzig.bsky.social, moderieren wird @geschom.bsky.social. Wir freuen uns schon!

💥NEW PAPER OUT experimentally demonstrating the applicability of 'concept creep’ to mental illness. It shows that as the frequency of severe symptoms describing mental illness is decreased, people are more likely to expand their judgement of what constitutes a mental illness… doi.org/10.1007/s004...

‘Concept creep’ in perceptions of mental illness — an experimental examination of prevalence-i...

The perception of what constitutes mental illness is influenced by various social and medical developments. Prevalence-induced concept change is a phenomenon where decreasing the prevalence of a categ...

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