They reported that exposure to others' negative HIV disclosure experiences caused them to anticipate negative or discriminatory responses to disclosure of their own HIV status.
The differences between the ability of absolute and relative differences in the characteristic to characterize behavior were not large, but absolute differences in the characteristic consistently described agents' discriminatory responses better than did relative differences.
This is not the first time we've seen discriminatory responses to moments of progress," she remarked.
"This is not the first time that we have seen discriminatory responses to historic moments of progress for our nation," Lynch said.
"The emerging picture of the arcuate POMC system is that of a circuit that can sense a wide array of signals and can then produce highly discriminatory responses through a differentiated set of circuits and molecular signaling mechanisms," they write.
However, like anger, hostility may elicit discriminatory responses from others suggesting a confounding role [ 14].
It is of interest that on average a greater percentage of people exhibited discriminatory responses to GAD on the Social Distance scale than endorsed stigmatising statements on the GASS.
1 The Aspen Group has defined operational criteria for the diagnosis of VS 2 and MCS. 3 VS is characterised by responses that are only 'spontaneous or reflexive', while MCS patients exhibit some inconsistent but reproducible 'localising or discriminatory' responses.
