Those who were told that mental disorders had a genetic basis were more prone to increase their social distance from the mentally ill, and also to assume that the ill were dangerous individuals, in contrast with those members of the general public who were told that the illnesses could be explained by social and environment factors.
Oni koji su rekli da su mentalni poremećaji imaju genetsku osnovu su više skloni da povećaju svoju socijalnu distancu od mentalno bolesnih, i da pretpostavimo da je bolestan opasan pojedinac, u kontrastu sa onim članovima javnosti koji su rekli da se bolesti mogu objasniti društvenim i ekološkim faktorima.