Abstract
The data presented here indicated that suburban homeowners did not discriminate among levels of severity when asked to rate the concept, former mental patient, via the semantic differential technique. This lack of individuation of mental patients is interpreted as being consistent with a stereotypic response set and is seen as a demonstration of the depersonalization function of the label of mental illness. Various resistance strategies to community-based programs appear to be consistent with the fear-evoked “threat-recoil cycle” model developed by Rhodes.
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