Overweight people have low levels of implicit weight bias, but overweight nations have high levels of implicit weight bias

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Marini, Maddalena ^a,b   Sriram, Natarajan ^a   Schnabel, Konrad ^c   Maliszewski, Norbert ^d   Devos, Thierry ^e   Ekehammar, Bo ^f   Wiers, Reinout ^g   Cai, HuaJian ^h   Somogyi, Mónika ⁱ   Shiomura, Kimihiro ^j   Schnall, Simone ^k   Neto, Félix ^l   Bar Anan, Yoav ^m   Vianello, Michelangelo ⁿ   Ayala, Alfonso ^o   Dorantes, Gabriel ^p   Park, Jaihyun ^q   Kesebir, Selin ^r   Pereirax, Antonio ^s   Tulbure, Bogdan ^t   Ortner, Tuulia ^u   Stepanikova, Irena ^v   Greenwald, Anthony G ^w   Nosek, Brian A ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^e SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^h INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

ⁱ EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^j Ferris University   (Japan)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^m BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^o Instituto Electoral Veracruzano   (Mexico)

^p UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS   (Mexico)

^q CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^r LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^s FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^t TRANSILVANIA UNIVERSITY OF BRASOV   (Romania)

^u UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^v UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^w UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; SELF REPORT; UNDERWEIGHT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVISM; OVERWEIGHT; PREJUDICE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892937502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083543     Document Type: Article

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