Weight bias in graduate school admissions

Obesity

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 918-920

  Burmeister, Jacob M ^a   Kiefner, Allison E ^a   Carels, Robert A ^a   Musher Eizenman, Dara R ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRADUATE STUDENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; NORMAL HUMAN; SCHOOL ADMISSION; WEIGHT BIAS;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; EDUCATION, GRADUATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; SEXISM; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84878528806     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/oby.20171     Document Type: Article

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