Some Implications of Research in the Social Psychology Of Physical Disability

Tenny John W. “The Minority Status of the Handicapped.” Exceptional Children. Apr. 1953. 19: 7:260.

Hanks Jane R. and Hanks L. M. “The Physically Handicapped in Certain Non-Occidental Societies.” J. of Social Issues. Fall 1948. 4:4:11–20.

Benedict R. Patterns of Culture. 1934. Houghton Mifflin, N.Y.

Mead M. Coming of Age in Samoa and Growing Up in New Guinea. 1928. Morrow, N.Y.

Barker Roger G. and others. Adjustment to Physical Handicap and Illness. (Rev. 1953). Social Science Research Council. N.Y. p. 75. Other studies of popular attitudes regarding various types of exceptional persons are summarized in chapter 3 on crippling, chapter 5 on impaired hearing, and chapter 6 on impaired vision.

Barker , op. cit. p. 84.

Barker , op. cit. p. 78. Another study in progress on “The Body Image of Physically and Mentally Handicapped Children” is listed in the Bulletin of the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Research Relating to Children. 1953. Washington, p. 166.

An interesting example of this is found in Margaret Halsey, Color Blind. 1946. N.Y. Chapter 1.

Four of these studies which have been reported in full in J. of Abnormal and Social Psychology and elsewhere are summarized by Barker , op. cit. p. 78–82.