From Spoiled Identity to Shared Challenge: Using Psychological Science to Understand Stigma As a Unifying (and Intersecting) Human Experience

Nearly all individuals are stigmatized at some point. However, research typically examines isolated stigmas, thereby precluding comparisons across stigmas, rendering invisible multiply-stigmatized individuals, and under-estimating stigma’s full population health impact. Studies in this symposium document the frequency, co-occurrence, and health impact of stigma through examining a spectrum of stigmas simultaneously.