Mental illness exaggerates existing prejudice-linked affects rather than creating new ones.

Evidence

Depression and feelings of inferiority and guilt appeared in mentally disturbed low-scorers only in more exaggerated forms than in normal' low-scorers; feelings of fear, particularly fear about one's physical well-being, took only more exaggerated forms among mentally disturbed high-scorers than among normal’ high-scorers. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 452

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the operational distinction between high-scorers (prejudice/fear about physical well-being) and low-scorers (depression, inferiority, guilt) that structures the whole F-scale research program.
• XREF: connects to: Victims’ defenses against prejudice can protect rather than damage mental health; Prejudice’s psychological harm is now seen as conditional rather than inevitable. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 939
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Victims’ defenses against prejudice can protect rather than damage mental health; Prejudice’s psychological harm is now seen as conditional rather than inevitable. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 939

Broader Connections

• Victims’ defenses against prejudice can protect rather than damage mental health #complicates (0.72)