Prejudice against people with disfigurements still rife

People with facial disfigurements are likely to be marginalised because little is expected of them socially or professionally, new research has revealed.  

The research, commissioned by charity Changing Faces, is said to expose “worrying unconscious prejudices” in modern Britain.

By asking participants in the research to sort a number of images of people with and without facial disfigurements and to assign positive and negative words to them from a supplied list, the ... (452 more words)

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