Abstract
A female student attempted to arrange interviews with middle-class housewives. For half the requests, she appeared physically normal; for the rest she appeared to have a deformed back. Half of the requests were for subsequent interviews with herself; for the other half, she requested subsequent interviews with a different interviewer. As expected, compliance was low when the stigmatized stimulus person attempted to arrange a future interview with herself; but contrary to expectation, compliance was not appreciably higher than in control conditions when the stigmatized person attempted to arrange the interview with a physically normal interviewer. The results were discussed in terms of the “potency ” of different types of physical stigma.
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