{"id":4983,"date":"2020-02-25T23:20:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T04:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=4983"},"modified":"2020-02-25T23:20:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T04:20:13","slug":"implicate-test-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/02\/25\/implicate-test-mental-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Implicate Test &#8211; Mental Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took the implicit test on mental illness and found that I had moderate automatic association with mental illness and danger and physical illness and harmlessness. I was both surprised and not surprised by these results. On one hand, I was raised my whole life not to view mentally ill people as dangerous. My mom spent years volunteering at a mental health home and working with mentally ill patients, and the lessons and ideals she took from that she taught to me. On the other hand, I grew up in an era of mass shootings where the culprit was often mentally ill, which almost certainly influenced my implicit view of them. I do my best to continue my mom\u2019s ideals, and I don\u2019t automatically assume mentally ill people are dangerous or that its unsafe to be around them, but at the same time I wasn\u2019t surprised by these results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took the implicit test on mental illness and found that I had moderate automatic association with mental illness and danger and physical illness and harmlessness. I was both surprised and not surprised by these results. On one hand, I was raised my whole life not to view mentally ill people as dangerous. My mom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}