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University of Connecticut DigitalCommons@UConn Honors Scholar Theses Honors Scholar Program Spring 5-1-2008 Gender Difference in Emotional and Behavioral Responses of Being Rendered Invisible J uemei Yang University of Co nnecticut - Storrs, jamieyang8@ Follow this and additional works at : /srhonors_theses Part of the Psychology Commons Recommended Citation ang, Juemei, Gender Difference in Emotional and Behavioral Responses of Being Rendered Invisible (2008). Honors Scholar Theses. Paper 49. /srhonors_theses/49 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Honors Scholar Program at DigitalCommons@UConn. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Scholar Theses by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UConn. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@. Gender Differences 1 Gender Differences in Emotional and Behavioral Responses to being Rendered Socially Invisible Juemei Yang University of Connecticut Gender Differences 2 Gender Differences in Emotional and Behavioral Responses to being Rendered Socially Invisible Stigma, a mark of shame or discredit, can negatively affect people’s psychological well-being. Weight stigma, for example, has been shown to hinder youth’s social, emotional, and academic development (Puhl Latner, 2007). Race can produce another type of stigma. When people experience racism, their race is being judged as inadequate, and the stigma could become more conspicuousness to the victim (Crocker Major 1989). Stigma is more about being rejected and excluded overtly, where as