Title
How the Negative Stigma Associated with AIDS Affects Sufferers' Trustworthiness
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2012
Abstract
Trust is foundational for social and healthcare relationships. Stigma associated with AIDS may affect evaluations of trustworthiness in AIDS sufferers. Participants evaluated the trustworthiness of someone described as being honest, dishonest, or having AIDS. The individual described as having AIDS was judged as untrustworthy as the individual described as being dishonest. In a follow-up experiment, the individual was described as being honest, dishonest, contracting AIDS via heterosexual sex, via male-to-male sexual intercourse, or via a blood transfusion. Someone contracting AIDS from male-to-male sexual intercourse was judged as untrustworthy as a dishonest person and more untrustworthy than individuals in the other conditions.
DOI
10.5539/res.v4n4p54
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Rice, Stephen; Sandry, Joshua; and Richardson, Jessica, "How the Negative Stigma Associated with AIDS Affects Sufferers' Trustworthiness" (2012). Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 257.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/psychology-facpubs/257
Published Citation
Rice, S., Sandry, J., & Richardson, J. (2012). How the Negative Stigma Associated with AIDS Affects Sufferers' Trustworthiness. Rev. Eur. Stud., 4, 54.