Stigma and compliance.

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Asked 121 housewives either to fill out a 79-item questionnaire and return it through the mail or to submit to a 15-20 min. interview. For 1/2 of the Ss the person making the request was wearing a black eyepatch; for the other 1/2, no eyepatch was worn. In the questionnaire condition, compliance was significantly higher when the requester was wearing the eyepatch; in the interview condition, the eyepatch had no effect on compliance. Results were explained in terms of 2 conflicting motives on the part of the Ss: a tendency to want to help the person who is stigmatized in some way and a difficulty and embarrassment in having to deal with someone who is stigmatized. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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