Attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities.

What is it about?

Negative attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities (ID) affect them socially and psychologically. There has been research on explicit attitudes towards people with ID, however the methods used to elicit suich attitudes are open to social desirability bias. Implicit attitude measures are therefore necessary to help us understand attitudes towards people with ID better. Further to this, the link between explicit and implicit attitudes is explored and finally the role of participant demographics on this relationship is also discussed.

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Why is it important?

There has been little research on the relationship between explict and implicit attitudes to ID.