#StudyDifference: towards a better understanding of stereotypes & stigma Psychology and Neuroscience Friday Seminar: Dr Helen Paterson (Glasgow)

In this talk Dr H Paterson from the University of Glasgow will present work from her lab on the methods her team has been developing to try and understand stereotypes and stigma. Currently, the work is exploratory in nature and is conducted through student projects for undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations. In the lab Dr Paterson and her students take a team science-based research approach, and she encourages her dissertation students to continue work started by previous students. This has provided an opportunity to develop research questions for dissertations, which are typically about six-month long projects, that can be conducted as multi-year projects.

Alongside the methods Dr Paterson and her team have developed, she will present what they have so far learned from three of these projects: contribution of parents' attitudes to children's gender stereotypes; stereotype representation in children's TV; and the development of a stigma scale on students' attitudes to mental health and neurodiversity.

Two relevant methods papers:

Conry-Murray, C. et al. (2024) Validity and transparency in quantifying open-ended data. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 7(4), pp. 1-20. (doi: 10.1177/25152459241275217)

Paterson, Helena , Todorova, Greta K. , Noble, Katie, Schickhoff, Sebastian and Pollick, Frank E. (2021) Evaluation of Headtorch WORKS as a workplace intervention for improved support and understanding of co-workers with poor mental health and well-being. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 30(6), pp. 931-942. (doi: 10.1080/1359432X.2021.1895757)