Reducing obesity stigma: The effectiveness of cognitive dissonance and social consensus interventions

Obesity

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1768-1774

  Ciao, Anna C ^a   Latner, Janet D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIFAT ATTITUDES TEST; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FILIPINO; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE; MALE; MARLOWE CROWNE SOCIAL DESIRABILITY SCALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ROMANTIC UNATTRACTIVENESS SUBSCALE; PORTRAIT VALUES QUESTIONNAIRE; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CONSENSUS; STIGMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AVERSIVE THERAPY; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; COGNITIVE DISSONANCE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONSENSUS; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HAWAII; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL STIGMA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052152505     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2011.106     Document Type: Article

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