Effects of diagnostic labels on perceptions of marginal cases of mental ill-health.

There was a weak but consistent trend for the labeled vignettes to be judged as reflecting more stable or unchanging difficulties than the unlabeled vignettes (2.78 vs 2.71), but it did not reach statistical significance despite the large sample.

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The significantly greater support for accommodations in the diagnostic label condition was not obtained in Study 1, although it found a nonsignificant trend in the same direction, suggesting that the accommodations effect is credible.

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