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Test of Goffman's Hypothesis of Familiarity and Deviance: Attempted Suicide and Tolerance of Deviant Behavior

Psychological Reports

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First published online October, 1976

Test of Goffman's Hypothesis of Familiarity and Deviance: Attempted Suicide and Tolerance of Deviant Behavior

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Volume 39, Issue 2

https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1976.39.2.420

Abstract

Data for 115 college students indicated no support for Goff-man's assertion that greater familiarity with deviants was associated with tolerance of deviance.

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References

Goffman

Stigma. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1963.

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