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Changing stigmatizing attitudes to mental health via education and contact with embodied conversational agents

Joel Sebastian,Deborah Richards

2017 · DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2017.03.071
Computers in Human Behavior · 73 Citations

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The results with 245 participants show that both media (ECA and video) aided recognition of Anorexia Nervosa and produced significant changes in positive volitional stigma and negativevolitional stigma but not in traditional stigma, with some notable differences based on gender.