Assessing Affective Engagement with Narratives of Invisible Disability

Deconstructing and reducing situational stigma on the basis of visual and semantic assumption mechanisms.

Assumptions are commonplace across human interactions, but while some are harmless, others are not. The present intervention study uses healthcare narratives of invisible disability, which are poorly understood and rarely disclosed due to the stigma experienced by individuals, to reduce false assumptions of others on the basis of visual and semantic cues.