Crip for a Day: The Unintended Negative Consequences of Disability Simulations

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Objective: To investigate the impact of disability simulations on mood, self-ascribed disability stereotypes, attitudes about interacting with disabled individuals, and behavioral intentions for improving campus accessibility.

Conclusions: Simulating disabilities promotes distress and fails to improve attitudes toward disabled people, undermining efforts to improve integration even while participants report more empathetic concern and “understanding of what the disability experience is like.”