Robin Williams Acting Career

Robin Williams is a well-known actor and comedian starring in films such as Mrs. Doubtfire and Hook. The world was shocked when the news about Robin Williams’ death was announced. He was found in his bedroom by his personal assistant after not hearing any response from the knocks. On August 12, 2014, he was found hung by a belt with slits on his wrist. He was sixty-three years old. Weeks later after Robin Williams’ death, Billy Crystal gave a touching tribute to Robin Williams at the Emmy’s. Robin Williams impacted many people through his acting career. With the news of him taking his own life; this opened the eyes of many about the seriousness of mental health. A study done by Patrick W. Corrigan, Karina J. Powell, Konadu Fokuo, and Kristin A. Kosyluk (2014) focused on the impact of humor with public stigma on mental health. A routine done by David Granire, the …show more content…
Since these were outliers those participants were removed from additional analysis. The sample was 70.8% men and ethnically diverse (Corrigan et. Al, 2014.) The attribution questionnaire (both pretest and post-test) were negatively related to affiliative humor. This means that the more participants enjoy humor, the less likely they were to have stigma. Participants who viewed comics as having a mental illness and relatively more humorous, aggressive, “like me” and sincere had decreased stigma. An affiliative humor style was found to be significantly associated with all perceptions of the comic. An aggressive humor style was significantly related to viewing the comic as only humorous or aggressive. People assigned to the sketches that disclosed the information that the comic dealt with mental illness or the sketches where there was no disclosure showed significant reductions in posttest stigma on the attribution questionnaire as they endorsed greater affiliative humor (Corrigan et. al,