The influence of one's own body weight on implicit and explicit anti-fat bias

Obesity

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 440-447

  Schwartz, Marlene B ^a   Vartanian, Lenny R ^a   Nosek, Brian A ^b   Brownell, Kelly D ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Explicit attitudes; Implicit attitudes; Stereotypes; Stigma; Weight bias

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREJUDICE; STEREOTYPING; THINNESS;

EID: 33749169533     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2006.58     Document Type: Article

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