Evolution of public attitudes about mental illness: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

By G. Schomerus, C. Schwahn, A. Holzinger, P. Corrigan, H. Grabe, M. Carta, M. Angermeyer. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2012

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Essentially Biased: Why People Are Fatalistic About Genes (2017, background): “…also emerges in response to questions about specific conditions/illnesses such as alcoholism (e.g., Keller, 2005), obesity (e.g., Dar-Nimrod, Cheung et al., 2014), cancer (e.g., de Vries, Mesters, Van de Steeg, & Honing, 2005), or mental illness (e.g., Schomerus et al., 2012), to name a few.”
The Impact of Mental Illness Stigma on Seeking and Participating in Mental Health Care (2014, background): “A subsequent meta-analysis of 33 reports on 16 population studies from around the world showed steady increase in perceiving mental illness as a biological disorder that should be treated (Schomerus et al., 2012).”
Erasing the Stigma: Where Science Meets Advocacy (2013, neutral): “Namely, people who are taught about biological models of mental illness or that psychiatric disease is fundamentally genetic come to believe people with these disorders do not recover and that work and independent living goals should not be an expectation (Phelan, 2002; Read, Haslam, Sayce, & Davies”
Mental Health Stigma in the Muslim Community (2013, neutral): “Hypotheses stemming from predominantly Western research on the links be- tween stigma and different causal and treatment beliefs (e.g., Schomerus et al., 2012) must be investigated among diverse Muslim samples.”