ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
Is Health More Genetic Than Illness? Asymmetrical Genetic Attributions for Normal Versus Pathologized Health Status
- Matthew Lebowitz
Columbia University - Kathyrn Tabb
Columbia University - Paul Appelbaum
Columbia University
Abstract
Participants (N=610) read about a person (“Jane”) experiencing one of four outcomes: depression, “normal mood,” obesity, or “normal weight.” Asked to rate the strength of genes’ causal role for their assigned outcome, participants gave significantly weaker genetic attribution ratings depression and obesity, compared to normal mood or normal weight.
Applied Experimental
