A new study published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology reveals a hidden tension in ethical consumerism: While consumers ...

We would never tell a child with cancer they weren’t “trying hard enough” if the chemotherapy wasn’t working, yet this language is what children and families I work with often report they hear when ...

Migraine can impact many aspects of a person's life, but less is known about how feelings of stigma about the disease affect quality of life. For people with migraine, these feelings of stigma were ...

Maybe you have decided that the voice inside your head judging yourself or others for body size can be pretty mean, but at least it’s encouraging weight loss, right? No, it’s not, experts say. “There ...

Stigma is a glue that holds poverty, inequality and economic insecurity in place enabling and exacerbating inequalities of wealth, health and opportunity, says a new report. Poverty Stigma is a ...

We’ve come a long way from the days when people generally viewed mental health care as a subject worthy of secrecy and shame. In a global survey published in May 2025, nearly 75% of respondents say it ...

Based on the most recent statistics from the 2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 48.4 million Americans (16.8%) aged 12 and older were diagnosed with a substance use disorder (SUD) in the ...

Imogen Tyler has received funding from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as part of the Stigma and Poverty Design Team. She has previously received funding from the Leverhulme Trust for her research on ...

Ashwin Dhanda receives funding from the National Institute of Health and Social Care Research for a study investigating methods to tackle stigma in alcohol-related liver disease. One of my patients, ...