A comparison of status and stigma processes: Explicit and implicit appraisals of “mentally ill people” and “uneducated people”.

In prior work, we proposed that the related processes of status differentiation and stigmatization both diminish the status of negatively labeled groups, but that only stigma also engenders social rejection, in part via appraisals of abnormality (Lucas, & Phelan, 2012, Phelan, Lucas, Ridgeway, & Tay