The authors investigated the effect of reading a newspaper article reporting a violent crime committed by a mental patient (target article) on attitudes toward people with mental illnesses. The authors also investigated the effect of corrective information (prophylactic articles) on the attitudes of
Impact of a television film on attitudes toward mental illness
โ Scribed by Otto F. Wahl; J. Yonatan Lefkowits
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 454 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0091-0562
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