Effects of Biological Versus Psychosocial Explanations on Stigmatization of Children With ADHD.

Objective: Previous studies have found biological conceptualizations of psychopathology to be associated with stigmatizing attitudes and prognostic pessimism. This research investigated how biological and psychosocial explanations for a child's ADHD symptoms differ in affecting laypeople's stigmatizing attitudes and prognostic beliefs.

Method: Three experiments were conducted online with U.