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Introduction: Stigmatization of people with mental illnesses negatively affects individual functioning and leads to the avoidance of treatment. Recent studies investigate non-conscious or implicit stigmatization, which is less strategic and unintentional (Teachman et al., 2006). Researchers investigate factors related to stigmatization, because they can serve as potential targets to decrease stigmatization. Objectives: Here we investigate the role of personal value priorities in implicit stigmatization of people with mental illnesses among people with no experience of mental illnesses. Methods: Sixty-four participants (Mage = 19.81, SD = 3.16, 16 males) took part in the study. Participants completed the Implicit Association Test (Greenwald et al., 1998), modified to measure implicit stigmatization of people with mental illnesses (Teachman et al., 2006). The also completed the Portrait Values Questionnaire (Schwartz, 2003), which measures value priorities. Results: Values were included in the linear mixed-effects model as independent variables, while implicit stigmatization - as dependent variable. Values explained 15% of variance of implicit stigmatization with medium effect size (f2 = .178). Conformity value was positively related to implicit stigmatization (ß = .356, t = 2.044, p = .046), while self-direction value was negatively related to it (ß = - .419, t = -2.644, p = .011). Conclusions: Valuing independence, creating and exploring, people implicitly stigmatize people with mental illnesses less, and vice versa. To the contrary, valuing restraint of actions, inclinations, and impulses, people implicitly stigmatize people with mental illnesses more, and vice versa. Activation of these value priorities might be used to decrease the implicit stigmatization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]